Tige Savage built his investing instincts through an unusual path—growing up as a military brat, working in a computer store at 14, writing software for Atari, and later apprenticing under banker Joe Allbritton—before moving through Riggs National Bank and Time Warner Ventures, where he invested across AOL, HBO, Time Inc., Turner, and Warner Bros. That background shapes how he invests today at Revolution Ventures: he looks for old, unglamorous industries that can be modernized by pairing local expertise with strong product teams, often outside Silicon Valley, sources deals mainly through a trusted network of founders and executives rather than cold outreach, and frames his work as a way to spread capital and opportunity beyond the usual coastal hubs.