# Nathan Myhrvold
**Domain:** Technology / Invention / Physics / Intellectual Property
**Doc Type:** Person Node
**Maturity:** Developing
**Related:** [[Bill Gates]], [[Research Infrastructure]], [[Team Leela]], [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]]
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## Definition
**Nathan Myhrvold** is a physicist, inventor and technology executive who founded Intellectual Ventures after serving as Microsoft’s chief technology officer.
## Corpus Context
His career joins theoretical training, software-era institutional power, invention markets and ambitious technology programs. It is useful for examining how ideas move through patents, capital and applied research rather than through academic publication alone.
## Team Leela Context
He appears in [[Team Leela]] as part of Bryant’s analytic constellation, not an official membership body.
## Backlinks
[[Recommended Institutions and Signals]] · [[Team Leela]]
## Sources / Provenance
- [Intellectual Ventures — Nathan Myhrvold](https://www.intellectualventures.com/who-we-are/leadership/nathan-myhrvold/)