I had a dream about a guy I met a few times 25 years ago (ish). He was the brother of the guy I worked for who was one of 3 owners at a company of 50. I knew the guy was pretty well off and had made money in electronics and texas instruments from way back. I looked him up and mentioned him to my mom and dad. When I worked at the company my check didn't come from the company I worked for. I worked at/for SS&S Fabricators but my check was from TechniComp and I knew nobody else had a check from that. On one ocassion a lot of peoples check bounced and mine didn't which is when I looked into it.
Apparently the guys brother was on his ass to get more tech oriented and I was the only draftsman there that used a computer. According to my mom and dad (Dad worked there and quit the day I was born and had met the guy a few times) I was paid by what I called the owners brother.
Kind of blows my mind. I should have stuck more with him and hit him up for more jobs. He paid well, I quit after threatening to almost kill his nephew he was coked out at the time.
I looked up his obit and he died a few years ago.
Mind blowing lol. I know it has nothing to do with what I do now, just can't state enough how mind blowing it is to me. The few times I met the guy he seemed like an ordinary guy and on one ocassion we walked out to the shop and talked about ways we could speed up production using computer tech and such. Apparently he wasn't getting anywhere with his brother. I do know he kept the company afloat on many ocassions with cash, and competitors knew it as well.
Leonce John "L.J." Sevin Jr.'s Obituary on Dallas Morning News
While working at Texas Instruments, L.J. wrote the definitive book on "Field Effect Transistors". The book was ultimately translated into seven languages and L.J. was recognized as the expert in this field. In 1969, with a small group of other TI engineers, L.J. cofounded Mostek Corporation and served as CEO for ten years. The company made and patented several significant innovations in the semiconductor memory market, including ion implementation processing and the first single chip calculator. Mostek was among a handful of companies credited with the amazing advances in electronics over the past fifty years. L.J. led Mostek to national and international status.
L.J., along with Ben Rosen, a respected securities analyst on Wall Street, established Sevin Rosen Funds, a venture capital fund, in 1981. Helping to start Compaq Computer Corporation in 1982 was one of the fund's earliest successes. The Compaq Portable PC revolutionized the personal computer industry. In addition to backing Compaq, Sevin Rosen was involved in providing venture capital to many other technology companies, including Lotus Development Corporation, Electronic Arts, Citrix, Ciena, Cyrix and Cypress Semiconductor.