His love of blacksmithing, he tells us, eventually grew into his global outdoor-apparel company.
Legba was a computer hacker like Kyle, but he eventually grew bored with hacking and got into animation.
Where once he would revel in the Twitter pile on, Ronson told us, he eventually grew "sick of making damaged people into play things".
He continued to expand the sets, which eventually grew into an ethno-village that he named Drvengrad ("Woodville").
Macchiarini produced artificial windpipes by taking a polymer scaffold and "seeding" it with stem cells from the recipient, which he claimed colonized the scaffold and eventually grew into a living organ.
Mekas is also responsible for the legendary Movie Journal (from 1958) in the Village Voice, and in 1964 he founded the Filmmakers' Cinematheque, which eventually grew into Anthology Film Archives, one of the world's largest and most important repositories of avant-garde cinema and screening venue.
After Princeton, he spent three years in the Navy during the Korean War — it was in Japan that he purchased his first Japanese bamboo basket, which eventually grew into a collection of more than 900 baskets.
He named her Old Bet and originally planned to use her as a draft animal, but he ended up forming a traveling menagerie that eventually grew into the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus.
While he was a member of Naked Angels, Lonergan worked on material that eventually grew into plays and screenplays.
Every day he would add to the expanding map, crafting green spaces and neighborhoods that eventually grew into made-up cities like "Plaeides" and "Ukrainia".
He is the largest shareholder in the company that began in 1994 as an online bookseller but eventually grew into a globally dominant all-purpose retailer.
