Original sentence: Having no means of accessing the necessary information with his modem, Porter convinced Newcomb to become his partner and together create a company that would enable any individual with a personal computer to trade stocks from their home -- thereby disintermediating stock trades.Patents  Porter holds 14 patents, having developed a number of electronic devices and processes -- including for the aforementioned "first" shoulder-mounted-backpack broadcast color TV camera, the first infrared horizon sensor for satellite stabilization (prior to Sputnik) , and several other breakthroughs still in use today in a variety of fields -- including, according to the 2000 CNN interview, devices used by the US military to this day.Porter was born and raised in Boulder, Colorado   and spent his childhood summers as a cowboy on a Colorado ranch
Edited sentence: Having no means of accessing the necessary information with his modem, Porter convinced Newcomb to become his partner and together create a company that would enable any individual with a personal computer to trade stocks from their home—thereby disintermediating stock trades.Patents  Porter holds 14 patents, having developed a number of electronic devices and processes—including for the aforementioned "first" shoulder-mounted-backpack broadcast color TV camera, the first infrared horizon sensor for satellite stabilization (prior to Sputnik) , and several other breakthroughs still in use today in a variety of fields—including, according to the 2000 CNN interview, devices used by the US military to this day.Porter was born and raised in Boulder, Colorado  and spent his childhood summers as a cowboy on a Colorado ranch