"Andy Grignon, technology entrepreneur and founder of Quake Labs, is known by many impressive titles. Yet somehow, “corn boy” remains the one he can’t escape.The name stems from a videoconference with California technology companies that Grignon gave when he was just a junior at the University of Iowa studying computer science. [...] After developing several influential programs such as Dashboard and iChat, Grignon became part a special 10-person design team assigned with one task: create the iPhone. [...] About a decade after the iPhone was first unveiled, Grignon returned to Iowa City to speak with students at the Association of Computing Machinery."

Full Daily Iowan article here.