# 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]] --- ## 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/)