This tech exec survived the wild startup ’90s. Here’s what he’s learnt

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He was close to his father, less so his mother. When he was 14, Raduchel snr, a local official and petrol station owner, died. “My father would always check my homework,” Raduchel jnr says. “And when he died, I think the only way I thought I knew that I could please him was to have perfect homework.” Already a good student, Raduchel excelled and propelled himself into university, first at a state level and then Harvard on scholarships. A talent for early computers the size of semi-trailers got him research work and administrative jobs, then into the private sector where...