Cha Cha Cha
Fast Company, November, 2006 by Evan West
Scott Jones, CEO, ChaCha All or nothing--that's what Scott Jones used to believe. As a twentysomething, the former MIT research scientist kept a futon under his desk so commuting wouldn't deter him from developing the patents that would, in the 1980s, make computerized voice mail as essential to telecom as the dial tone.
The hard work paid off: Boston Technology, the firm he cofounded, became a highflier, and Jones earned a whiz-kid reputation. But sometime after retiring at age 31 with around $50 million, Jones grew unhappy just leisurely flying airplanes. "I realized that when I was just out of MIT, and sometimes didn't sleep and didn't care, that's what turned me on," he says. Now Jones, 46, has rediscovered his old zone. After returning to his home state of Indiana and...
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