Why Gen Y Doesn't Care About Cars
Generation Y's indifference to the automobile is going to affect millions of businesses. Read story

Howard A. Tullman is president & CEO of Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts Academy. He is the general managing partner for Chicago High Tech Investors, a member of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s Council of Technology Advisors and Governor Pat Quinn’s Illinois Innovation Council and an adjunct professor at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management. Over the last 40 years, he has founded more than a dozen high-tech companies. @tullman
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