and you’re like ‘I didn’t help,’ right? ‘I’m here, I’m trying to help, but I didn’t help.’” “He was different when he got back,” his wife says. Wade nods. “It was this event in your development where you’re thinking ‘this is the solution’... and then it’s not. It was overwhelming,” says Wade. “It’s still very emotional for me. It’s heartbreaking.”
had reached out about a documentary about rescuing people after disasters hit. And in late August, a group attached to the documentary approached Wade with a new machine that could help find bodies. The timing seemed serendipitous. As Wade said, “9/11 hit – within a few days of looking at the investment. And so they said, ‘We’re going to Ground Zero with this box, to see whether we could help there.’”
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The invention was meant to be a “dog in a box” of sorts... replacing a dog’s incredible sense of smell with a package that could be quickly shipped in quantity to disasters around the world – like rural India or Asia – where it would be difficult to get trained dogs. But soon, they realized the box couldn’t hit the same level of accuracy as a dog. “The minute you realize that, there’s nothing that we can do here. Let me just get a shovel or something – help any way I can,” says Wade. “We were shoulder-to-shoulder with the crews who were trying to dig stuff out – but there was also so much death all around,” Wade says. “And you’re looking at the firemen that risked their lives, the police, and the nurses... And in some respect, there was almost nobody to help. And then you leave the site and there are throngs of New Yorkers who are aching for something to appreciate. And they’re appreciating you for being there,
TOO EARLY FOR BILLIONS Failure is part of being first, explains Wade. Sometimes, the big wins only come because you say no to small wins along the way – like with the $1 million sale of wallstreet.com. Other times, being “early” isn’t enough, and a latecomer ends up with the gains. In the dot-com heyday, Wade helped found a startup with a promising future. It was an early pioneer in Voice over Internet Protocol (“VoIP”) chat... the technology that today powers Skype, Google Talk, and the iPhone’s FaceTime.
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