+1...but only if there’s an audiobook format I can buy that’s read by Chuck.
> On Apr 18, 2016, at 11:30 AM, Josh Reynolds <[email protected]> wrote: > > You need to write a book on this > > On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 10:33 PM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote: >> There has always been McCown Tech since the early 19902.. It was the owner >> of intellectual property (Patents, designs, trademarks etc) as well as the >> owner of all critical production machinery. My wife and I own this 100% >> >> Beehive Telephone Company was started in 1963 by Art Brothers. He died a >> couple of weeks ago. >> I worked for Beehive Telephone off and on for about 30 years. Quit 4 times >> fired twice. >> >> I actually came from Oregon Telephone. Art hired me to get him out of >> trouble with the REA (now called RUS) in 1986 as he had used materials that >> were not allowed under the loan program and they were denying him loan draw >> downs. I was a central office installer and a REA contract inspector in >> Oregon so I knew the proper way to do things. Art did nothing properly. >> So I helped Art learn how to properly build a telephone company and get out >> of trouble with the feds. (It was a mess, crappy PBX systems in semi >> trailers in the desert as central offices). >> >> I had a hard time working for him and his wife de jour for any length of >> time and went to Quincy Illinois, started MTC and manufactured airborne PBX >> systems for head of state, corporate and military aircraft. Art kept trying >> to get me to come back to Beehive. I did as a consultant and contractor >> and eventually stayed in 1999. >> >> In 2003 I used the insurance settlement from a personal tragedy and started >> the WISP Wireless Beehive with Art Brothers. 50/50 >> >> I started WB Manufacturing a couple of years later having developed some >> antennas used by Wireless Beehive. >> >> In 2013, we sold to Digis. Art told his wife (7th wife, about 40 years his >> junior, second Russian wife (6th if you don’t count common law)) that we >> got $90M and I would not give him any. He was a character. Prevaricator >> and confabulator without peer. She started to get paranoid I think (a >> common trait amongst Russians). >> >> During Wispapalloza the fall of 2013, while I was in Vegas, Art, his wife >> and her attorney rolled in and cleaned out a bunch of bank accounts. He >> told all the employees he was dying of a brain tumor and was going to >> travel the world. They engineered a takeover firing of myself, CFO, COO and >> several others. Most of the employees I hired and gave equity to all sided >> with the coup. (A regular paycheck is more powerful that integrity and >> loyalty I guess. ) Brain tumor never reappeared... >> >> And then they started suing almost everyone that got fired. This has been >> going on for a couple of years. >> >> So, no I was not about to continue to operate WB Manufacturing to the >> benefit of a guy the was suing me. WBM is also subject to the lawsuit as >> is my wife, the wife of the CFO, and a handful of other going concerns >> they shut down the the frenzy of attempting to rain fire from the sky. >> (Then even bought the mortgage of my factory building from Zions bank, told >> me they were now my banker, declared me a risk and said I was in default due >> to extraordinary risk and were going to foreclose. I was never late on a >> payment, they even returned payments they had accepted and refused to take >> any more payments... I have a TRO against them and a pending suit against >> them on that too) >> >> MTC was in operation and was a going concern and owned all the IP and rights >> to everything. So MTC just started selling what it already owned. WB >> Manufacturing is in mothballs and has been for a long time pending >> litigation and liquidation. >> >> Art has done this before. 21 years ago this month, he did almost the exact >> same thing to his kids. Threw them out, sued them, and really never talked >> to them since. >> >> He was a ward of the state growing up. Lived in 13 different foster >> families. Learned to burn every bridge, take every advantage and make no >> permanent friends. He has burned everyone that has spent more than a >> handful of years with him and every business partner he ever had that had >> skin in the game. I knew what he was like when I came back to Beehive in >> 1999. That is the reason MTC solely owns the IP, critical production >> equipment and all rights. It is also the reason I owned (I thought) my own >> building... >> >> The 30 somethings (sycophants?) that he assigned to take the jobs that were >> vacated are currently living high on being captains of business and >> industry and trying to continue to show the old guys how difficult they can >> make things for us. Tough guys, real hard ball players... >> Hubris Writ Large. >> >> As long as they keep the Russian happy, they will probably have jobs... >> >> So, did that answer the question? >> >> >> From: Rory Conaway >> Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2016 9:01 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [AFMUG] what is the difference between mccown tech and beehive? >> >> >> Are they 2 separate companies now? >> >> >> >> Rory Conaway • Triad Wireless • CEO >> >> 4226 S. 37th Street • Phoenix • AZ 85040 >> >> 602-426-0542 >> >> [email protected] >> >> www.triadwireless.net >> >> >> >> “I wish I could play little league now. I’d be way better than before.” >> >>
