Memories of John Jack

CEOs and founders are often remembered for their vision and market-changing strategies. But rarely do we offer the award of household-name-familiarity with someone who is not the CEO. This set of blogposts is about a man who conceived an industry-changing product, managed the development of the technical infrastructure to support it, wrote the marketing brochures, persuaded the sales reps to sell it, designed the first applications with the clients, closed the early deals, and drove untold profits to his company for decades. All those things were done by a single person.

To sing the praises of someone who did that once is worthwhile, but John Jack did it several times.

This story is broken down into a series of blog posts for shorter, more topical reading. However, feel free to binge.

John Jack and Tim Houlihan in the Pisgah Forest