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For this patient tech founder, success was a marathon, not a sprint

ON YOUR MARKS Runners at the start of the 2016 New York City Marathon cross the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge from Staten Island to Brooklyn. For the next 26.2 miles, Impinj chips on their bibs tracked their progress.

CHRIS DIORIO

CO-FOUNDER, CEO

2016 PATENT SCORE 20

2016 REVENUE $112.3 MILLION

IMPINJ JUST MIGHT BE the most ubiquitous tech company you’ve never heard of.

Last year the Seattle company, which makes radio-tracking tags, connected some six billion items around the world. Airbus Helicopters uses Impinj tags on its aircraft assembly lines; Macy’s uses them to keep tabs on merchandise. Hospitals around the country rely on Impinj devices to track equipment and even patients. And every November, the organizers of

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