Lance Peterson
San Francisco, California
Born in a small mill town in Wisconsin to second-generation Norwegian, Mecklenburg, Baden, and Prussian immigrants.
Studied philosophy, language, literature. Earned a doctorate and taught a spell before pioneering the settlement of the early Internet. Worked on an M.B.A degree until I learned about opportunity cost and fled. Veteran of multiple Silicon Valley startups.
At work obsessively in California, doing web, mobile and consumer electronics product development. At home culturally in Europe. At peace spiritually in Hawaii.
Academic background in European intellectual history (sociology, anthropology, philosophy), literature and business. Francophile, Slavophile, vinophile. Accomplished porch musician. Internationalist. Owner of the Green Bay Packers.