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#50 Bo Burlingham: Small Giants & the roots of great businesses

Make Things That Matter

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What's Going on With Precision Manufacturing?

After the book came out, i realized was got into serious trouble. I wrote to a company with two ceo and they were losing money on every single one of them. And so i thought, ok, so these these are companies that really know how to last. They had been making what are called a constant tork hinges. What that means is like a fe f a laptop, and you put the top p it doesn't fall right down. That's because of a constantTork hinge. The major manufacturers of laptops had all gone off shore. They'd gone to asia. There was a problem because this was a company that didn't want to lay anybody off.

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