# Taking a swing at a pickleball startup

**Published:** October 20, 2026
**Author:** Kathryn M. O’Neill
**Source:** MIT Technology Review
**Language:** en-US
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In corporate America, Stanley Anderson ’79 says, executives often assume that their peers grew up in privileged circumstances. He did not. “I spent my early years trying not to get recruited into gangs, getting shot at, watching my friends get murdered, and thinking that if I…

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