The authors make it clear in their introduction that the book will not be a chore to slog through: Of the seven categories into which they place their subjects, one is labeled "Entreprenerds."
He [Bill Gates] is Jobs's opposite. A virtuoso software engineer with virtually zero charisma, he is the ultimate entreprenerd.
1989 — "New popularity revenge of the nerds", Toronto Star, 9 June 1989:
Mike MacDonald, a former scientific computer programmer and self-professed "entreprenerd," has made a career out of the belief that "everybody, at one time or another, has felt like a nerd."
Fisher, 64, isn't your usual computer entreprenerd.
2000 — Paul McNamara, "'Net Buzz", Network World, 27 November 2000:
"Looks like I'm guilty," writes Dan Hanson. "I've been using the moniker of 'entreprenerd' for about a year and a half now. I'm a math major/techie/geek who starts and runs tech businesses — what else would you call it?"
2001 — Fred Y. Phillips, Market-Oriented Technology Management: Innovating for Profit in Entrepreneurial Times, Springer-Verlag (2001), →ISBN, page 147:
This is how today's "entreprenerds" deal with the risky future: First, identify a new, basic technology that will spawn whole new classes of products. […]
2009 — Leonard Brody & David Raffa, Everything I Needed to Know About Business… I Learned from a Canadian, John Wiley & Sons (2009), →ISBN, page 75:
It wasn't the divas that needed her the most, it was the entreprenerds.
2010 — Sebastian Mallaby, More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite, The Penguin Press (2010), →ISBN, page 12:
Ken Griffin of Citadel, the second highest earner in 2006, started out trading convertible bonds from his dorm room at Harvard; he was the boy genius made good, the financial version of the entreprenerds who forged tech companies such as Google.