[Elecraft] Odd Question [Elecraft history]

[Bill (K9YEQ)]

Alan,
I am still waiting on them to go public so I can get a few shares.  :-)

73,
Bill
K9YEQ


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Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Odd Question [Elecraft history]

Elecraft reminds me of what Hewlett Packard company must have been like in
the early days.  Two engineering buddies start a company in their garage.
One (Dave Packard in the case of HP, Eric in the case of
Elecraft) gravitates toward the business end of the enterprise while the
other (Bill Hewlett, Wayne) concentrates on the engineering.

I wasn't around in the early days of HP, but maybe someday when Elecraft is
a multi-billion-dollar corporation I'll be able to say that I knew Eric and
Wayne way back when.  :=)

Alan N1AL


On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 15:51 -0700, Jim Brown wrote:
> On 4/20/2011 2:44 PM, Wayne Burdick wrote:
> > Here's my account.
> 
> VERY interesting, Wayne.  That fills in an important gap for me -- I 
> had not realized that Eric had the serious EE background that he does.  
> But that also makes another point that I've long felt about being a 
> good chief executive -- to do it really well, you need not only a 
> solid biz background, but also a solid technical understanding of 
> every aspect of the business you're trying to run.  Clearly, he has 
> all of that -- one of the things that has impressed me the most about 
> Elecraft is a near complete absence of dumb business or marketing
decisions!
> 
> 73, Jim K9YC
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