fledgling
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Goldhaber recalls the summer in the early 2010s he spent as a content moderator for a fledgling internet company a “fundamental point of inspiration.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026
According to Walter Isaacson's biography of Jobs, Wayne, an engineer at the Atari video game company, was in charge of hardware engineering and documentation in the fledgling business.
From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026
She pitched it to Lichtenberg and his now-manager at Fortune, Ashley Lutz, who experimented with the fledgling technology, but the initial results were unsatisfactory and the test was discontinued.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
The smoldering ashes at the bottom of the building had broken out into a few fledgling fires, and he moved to put them out.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026
There were issues to manage at the fledgling Livermore lab, thermonuclear tests to attend in the Nevada desert and plans to be made for new tests at Eniwetok.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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