Summary : James Bagley built an infrastructure that created industry's first billion-dollar company
James Bagley (1994) built an infrastructure that created industry's first billion-dollar company
- Saw infrastructure as key to the planned architectural growth of an organization
- Competent individuals are hired in advance of need, ensuring that a company never outgrows its ability (a typical problem for early equipment companies)
- An early visionary to recognize that the days of captive equipment organizations were numbered
- Always had crystal clear vision and decisively moved organizations to take advantage of it
- Successfully jumped from the world’s captive equipment company (TI)
- To build the world’s largest merchant equipment company (Applied Materials)
- Then jumped again to save Lam Research
- Few can say they engineered global success three times
