There is the saying.. "Everything is for sale" When dealing with this
kind of individual, that's pretty much the "Golden rule" Along with "He
who has the gold makes the rules"
Having been in a relationship that was run according to those rules
( and it was fun having the gold ), I learned that someone who wants to
live under those rules is willing to do too much and doesn't always want
to walk away when they should. IF I had to get into that kind of
relationship from the other side, I would only do it with a) a defined
term, b) A walk away payout already put in escrow with a no-contest
contract. Never would be worth it otherwise. i.e I am there for 10
months and it is $1MM and it vests monthly starting today for the first
month and every month on the first of the month and will extend month to
month after 10 months. There just isn't a way to trust someone like
that any other way. Sorry Chuck even had to experience that. Oh also
if there is a lawsuit filed vesting for the whole term happens
immediately and funds transfer the day of court filing.
On 04/18/2016 03:20 PM, Chuck McCown wrote:
The money was pretty danged good...
*From:* Ken Hohhof <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Monday, April 18, 2016 4:15 PM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] what is the difference between mccown tech and
beehive?
Chuck seems to have quit or been fired the same number of times Art
changed wives.
Neither seemed to learn from past experience, you’d think Chuck would
have stopped working for Art, and Art would have stopped getting married.
*From:* That One Guy /sarcasm <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Monday, April 18, 2016 4:59 PM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] what is the difference between mccown tech and
beehive?
what did he have over you, you seem like a very principled individual,
tell us about your closet skeleton chuck
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 3:22 PM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Definitely had the golden handcuffs on me.
-----Original Message----- From: Robert Andrews
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2016 2:20 PM
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] what is the difference between mccown tech and
beehive?
He must have "Made you an offer you couldn't refuse" to get back
involved with him. And sounds like that was just the sort of fellow
he was. I really like being in a position that I don't have to deal
with anyone like that anymore.
On 04/18/2016 10:33 AM, Chuck McCown wrote:
I have about 220K words written on everything up to about 10
years ago.
This last 10 years has not been much fun. Having a hard time
forcing
myself to write about this.
Perhaps when the dust has settled I will get back to it.
-----Original Message----- From: Adam Moffett
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2016 11:31 AM
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] what is the difference between mccown tech and
beehive?
Or a made for TV Docudrama
On 4/18/2016 1:30 PM, Josh Reynolds wrote:
You need to write a book on this
On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 10:33 PM, Chuck McCown
<[email protected] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [AFMUG] what is the difference between mccown
tech and beehive?
Are they 2 separate companies now?
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