Remembering an Unassuming Tech Trailblazer: Tom Mitchell

I’ve been fortunate to have a few mentors who influenced the shape of my career at its formative stages. One of those people was Tom Mitchell, who unexpectedly passed away last November at the age of 76.

I met Tom in February 1993 on a surprisingly pleasant weather day in Houston when I was interviewing for a product manager role at Compaq Computer Corporation. In those days, product manager candidates were put through an excruciating round of endurance-like interviews (I recall the number being nine or 10) in a single day, with your outcome being determined at the end of the day.

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