Stoughton’s inclusion is due to the instant purl product he was pushing that was, in essence, a cocktail in all but name.
I’d love to see a similar directory of notable visionaries from the product side, although I‘d prefer to see that be a separate list, for various reasons.
I am feverishly marshaling all the dates for these people, along with related biographical and contextual essentials. The scale of this endeavor I significantly underestimated, but I’m getting there.