BRYAN MISTELE remembers the moment the idea for his company took shape. “It came out of left field,” he says. “Literally.”
It was October 2004, and the field was filled with 5-year-olds playing soccer. Mistele was standing on the sideline, watching his son, and chatting about his plans with another soccer dad-Rick Rashid, senior vice president in charge of research for Microsoft Corp. Mistele spent nine years at Microsoft and had left a few months earlier, determined to start a business of his own. He was thinking of putting together global positioning system GPS data to construct traffic reports, he told Rashid. Then you’ll be interested in this, Rashid replied, pulling out a cell phone and demonstrating a traffic prediction program his researchers were beta testing at that very moment. Commuter science meets computer science: Mistele knew right away that this was a combination he could sell.
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