Peter Seibel has helped more people (including me) discover and become user of Lisp as probably noone else in the last decade with his Practical Common Lisp. Dan Weinreb, one of the founders of Symbolics and later Chief Architect at ITA Software, a succesfull Lisp startup sold to Google for around $1B in 2011, wrote, that their method of building a Lisp team was by hiring good developers and givin