The people-winners, at each tie's exact strength

ITEM 8 · THE EXACT-TIE TEST

The fame band of the banked people leg runs this discipline for sports, politics and business — born here, raised here, seated here, resident here printed as four different facts — and this item runs it for technology, where the yield is three ties of three different strengths and one clean negative: Seated-here. Patrick Malley founded and ran NewSchool Learning from Granger (item 7) — a firm seated here by a founder born in Michigan and formed as an educator there; the tie is the seat, nothing more, and it prints as a seat. Luis Montestruque, EmNet's founder and president, is seated-here at one remove further: the firm he led was located in Granger at its founding (items 6–7), and he himself is of the Notre Dame research line — no record reached ties his own birth, schooling or residence to this ground, and none is claimed. Resident-here. Jianqing "Johnny" Zhu, founder, president and owner of Swagway, LLC — the hoverboard firm of the 2015 craze, seated at 3431 William Richardson Drive, South Bend — is pleaded in the federal record (UL LLC's complaint, N.D. Ind., February 17, 2016) as an individual who "resides in Granger, Indiana" and who personally formed the company and supplied most of its startup capital. The tie is residence, exactly: a South Bend company's founder who lived on this ground while he ran it. The complaint is an allegation-grade source for the company's course but a direct statement of his residence, and it prints at that strength. Born-here / raised-here: TESTED NEGATIVE. Searches run for this item: founder and native sweeps pairing Granger with startup, founder, technology and company records (company profiles, the Tribune's business coverage as reached, the IDEA Center's published startup rolls). No technology founder born in Granger or raised in Granger and winning elsewhere — no Hammerbacher of this ground — appears in any record reached. The negative is consistent with the place's demography (a farm township until the 1970s produces few natives of founding age by 2000), but it prints as a search result, not as demography: the settlers are the Tribune's full-text business pages and the McCloskey/IDEA alumni rolls read against birth records.

One banked boundary negative is confirmed, not disturbed: the people leg's fame band already carries Tire Rack as a boundary negative for business fame (EXPAND-PEOPLE-NOTE), and nothing in this run reopens it — Veldman and Joines are South Bend's.

Sources:

1. UL LLC v. Swagway, LLC and Jianqing "Johnny" Zhu, complaint, No. 3:16-cv-00075 (N.D. Ind., filed February 17, 2016) — Zhu "resides in Granger, Indiana"; founder, president, CEO and owner of Swagway; the company's seat at 3431 William Richardson Drive, Suite F, South Bend.
2. Wikipedia, "NewSchool Learning" — founder Patrick Malley, "a Michigan-born educator"; headquarters Granger, Indiana.
3. Purdue University release, June 4, 2008, and Xylem release, February 6, 2018 — EmNet's Granger location at founding; Montestruque as founder/president and research lead.