Hank Asher, pictured here in 2011. Eliot J. Schechter/ Bloomberg via Getty Images
Eliot J. Schechter/ Bloomberg via Getty Images
You might not know Hank Asher. But you’ll recognize how his creation and monetization of online databases helped change modern life.
Who is he?
Once a young pilot in South Florida and the Caribbean, Asher fell in with a group of drug smugglers in the 1980s and got into a lot of trouble (though was never convicted of a felony.) Asher sought
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