For a tech entrepreneur who still has his hair, Lyle Griffin has seen a lot.
As an employee of Dallas-based Micrografx, he won a Windows Pioneer award from Bill Gates for being the primary author of a first retail product for Microsoft Windows. Then, in the mid-90s, he started his own company that produced an internet browser and search engine ' back when those terms were first coming into public consciousness.
In the early 2000s, Griffin was VP of engineering for not one but two victims of the...