Edward Conard : (2) " The United States ran the table on Internet innovations, creating companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Intel, Apple, Cisco, Twitter, Amazon, eBay, YouTube, and others. Europe and Japan scarcely contributed. " - Edward Conard " Because my business partner, Mitt Romney, was running for president when ‘Unintended Consequences’ was published, the media held up my book as a defense of the 1 percent. " - Edward Conard