Blog Break 2: Capitol Watch Series by the Montana Review

Shortly after Governor Gianforte was elected, the Montana Review posted online a series written by MacKenzie Dexter in 2021 and updated in December 2022. Just Facts MT is taking a spring break and sharing the Capitol Watch series with updated financials in future blogs.  

Here is a direct link to Part 2: Building Businesses.

Last month, Greg Gianforte became Montana’s 25th governor. Born in 1961 in California, he grew up in a suburb outside of Philadelphia and was active in high school as class president, a football player and a young computer entrepreneur.

He attended college at Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey, where in 1983 he received a B.E. in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. in computer science. He spent his early adult years in New Jersey learning the ropes of the emerging tech world before moving to Montana in 1995, where he continued to grow his professional career and perfected ideas that helped reimagine the digital landscape of America and transform the traditional workplace in Montana.

While the Governor is now the face of conservative and Republican Montana politics, he is also very much a self-described businessman.

Stevens professor Bruce McNair recruited Gianforte to work in the AT&T Bell Labs headquarters in New Jersey after Gianforte graduated from college. As a professor and also a Stevens graduate, McNair knew well the university’s rigorous programs and expectations.

When Gianforte completed both his bachelors and masters in four years, the new graduate’s ambition made him a top-choice candidate for AT&T's Bell Labs. … Continue reading Part 2: Building Businesses. 

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Capitol Watch: Behind the Tech Empire that Launched Montana’s New Governor