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Former HP, Intel Exec Leads Pickleball Startup with New Paddle Tech

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Stanley Anderson, a former executive at HP Inc., Intel, and Palo Alto Research Center, is now the CEO of Costa Pickleball. The Las Vegas-based startup sells decorative pickleball paddles and is developing a quieter paddle technology. Anderson, who overcame a challenging upbringing, credits his success to lessons learned at MIT, emphasizing the power of effort. AI

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Former HP, Intel Exec Leads Pickleball Startup with New Paddle Tech

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. MIT Technology Review TIER_1 (TL) · Kathryn M. O’Neill ·

    Taking a swing at a pickleball startup

    In corporate America, Stanley Anderson ’79 says, executives often assume that their peers grew up in privileged circumstances. He did not. “I spent my early years trying not to get recruited into gangs, getting shot at, watching my friends get murdered, and thinking that if I don…

  2. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Taking a swing at a pickleball startup In corporate America, Stanley Anderson ’79 says, executives often assume that their peers grew up in privileged circumsta

    Taking a swing at a pickleball startup In corporate America, Stanley Anderson ’79 says, executives often assume that their peers grew up in privileged circumstances. He did not. “I spent my early years trying not to get recruited into gangs, getting shot at,… https://www. technol…

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