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August 1998 — Hi-tech is hotter than the California desert sun. The competition is only as far away as the next great idea and startups perish before their products ever see the light of day. In this Darwinian cauldron of invention, hype and reinvention, it is often difficult to tell predators from prey. Dan Abrahams didn’t see it coming, but that wasn’t so unusual. Even in Silicon Valley, the engineers are often the last to know. When he learns what he’s really been working on, it’s too late, and the only one who can help him is a young boy who can barely speak.