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“So, he did the summer job on weekends, which was something like 40 days of work in six all-nighters,”
Redemann said, “got good marks for his work and was able to surf and play music during the rest of the
week.”
Notes:
It was also during this time that, with his father, Gordon developed computer models and playing strategies
for blackjack. He developed computer-based trading models dealing with stock options and financial futures _________________
for the Wall Street firm of the then-Shearson Lehman Brothers and large-scale computerized telephone _________________
systems using microprocessors. _________________

By 1982, he founded Network Research Corp., a computer-networking firm. He sold that company four _________________
years later and — with a love for dressage — founded Classical Horseman, a mail-order business dealing _________________
with dressage training videos. In the interim, he and wife Heidi Carr moved from Malibu to Arroyo Grande,
where he based the business. _________________
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Gordon founded Xing in 1991 as a robotics and video tracking system company. Before selling the firm in
1997, his company was a leader in the Internet-altering software of JPEGs and MPEGs, allowing images to be _________________
compressed and sent online.
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Technology was but one facet of Gordon’s life. Jack Smith recalled meeting him one weekend in 2001 (the _________________
same year Gordon and Jay Crum set the Transpac record for double-handed sailing from California to
Hawaii) while Smith was staging the International Slalom Skateboard Races in Morro Bay. _________________
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With typical Gordon brio, he jumped into the sport. Under Smith’s initial direction, Gordon eventually
partnered with skateboard legend Bobby Turner and co-founded Turner Downhill. Under Gordon’s direction, _________________
the company completely revamped competitive downhill skateboarding by redesigning boards and wheels _________________
that dominated world championship racing.
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One of his greatest sources of pride in this venture is that his daughter Lauren — now 21 and a geological _________________
engineering student at the University of Montana — and son Dylan — now 18 and a visual journalism major
at Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara — both became world champion slalom skateboard racers several years ________________
in a row — traveling to events throughout the United States and Switzerland.

“He was one of the smartest guys I’ve ever known,” Smith said. “Yet, with all he accomplished, he was also
one of the most down-to-earth; a Polo shirt and shorts were his uniform. He enjoyed life to the fullest.”

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