Not being public may be one of the reasons they are so successfull. Outside stockholders can make life miserable for companies like Elecraft.
Many privatly held businesses award uotstanding employees stock as rewards for their service. Tom, N5GE On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 21:08:45 -0500, "Bill (K9YEQ)" <k9...@live.com> wrote: >Alan, >I am still waiting on them to go public so I can get a few shares. :-) > >73, >Bill >K9YEQ > > >-----Original Message----- >From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net >[mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Alan Bloom >Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 7:14 PM >To: j...@audiosystemsgroup.com >Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net >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 >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email >> list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> > > >______________________________________________________________ >Elecraft mailing list >Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > >This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > >______________________________________________________________ >Elecraft mailing list >Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > >This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
