Even with the current high-tech stock price decline, it remains a top Northwest stock and, says one F5 executive, there are good reasons for that. That's what brought Jeff and I together and really helped build this company, as well as a lot of prayer by us and our families. In 1996, Hussey, now F5's CEO, recruited Dixon from his position with the Seattle Sonics to become the company's first employee. Today F5 Networks has nearly 300 employees in nine U.S. cities and eight countries, including Japan, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Yet Hussey refuses to let unnecessary high-tech stress infiltrate F5's culture.
Family time is as important as the bottom line.
But it does work. You can't give up everything else in your life for work. Researcher in the Bio-Boom Seattle Pacific University now offers a degree track in biotechnology, but when Carol Stahlheber Raport graduated in 1982, it didn't exist. In fact, the industry that uses advanced technology to manipulate biological molecules for medical and environmental applications was just beginning its phenomenal growth. The small classrooms were wonderful, and I had total access to the professors.