By partnering with Founders Fund, they connected with backers whose futuristic ideology clicked with their own, and by relocating from Arizona to Silicon Valley, they were able to immerse themselves in, and impress, a business culture built on wild, hugely ambitious ideas.
The extravagant Khedive Ismail, Egypt's Ottoman governor, who had purchased his title from the Sultan in Istanbul, had gone wild with ambitious building projects, for which he had borrowed huge sums from British and French banks.
The Russian-German Igor Levit, who won the recording of the year award at this month's Gramophone awards for his wild and ambitious Bach, Beethoven and Frederic Rzewski disc, is one.
As for the future Wild is ambitious.
TechCrunch attended the 2018 Geneva Motor Show, which is a showcase for ambitious, wild, fast and fantastic cars from basically all the world's automakers.
The debate over the monument encapsulates a rising tension between two goals held by environmental groups: preservation of wild lands and ambitious efforts to combat global warming.
It's wild, it's ambitious, it's full of powerful women not only defined by who they love but how far they're willing to go for it.
The story of the New Hollywood, dominated by a wild bunch of ambitious, iconoclastic would-be auteurs, is by now overgrown with nostalgia and legend-mongering, but Mr. Pollack's place in that legend suggests continuity rather than upheaval.
