Fire In The Belly
Subtitle: Building A World-leading High-tech Company From Scratch In Tumultuous Times
Publisher: Down Home Press
Published: January 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781878086983
Subjects: North Carolina; Corporate & Business History - General; Business/Economics; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Industries - Media & Communications Industries; Cellular telephone equipment industry; Cellular telephone industry
First sentence: When dreadful, life-altering events occur, somebody with good intentions is apt to offer doubtful solace by saying, Maybe it's all for the best.
Description: This book provides the history of RF Micro Devices, a high-technology company based in Greensboro, North Carolina. Jerry Neals revealing, entertaining, often funny account of how RF Micro Devices came about is much more than a story of one companys beginnings. Fire in the Belly is a wild ride through the technology boom of the 1990s, from the layoffs that inspired the companys founding to just nine years later when RF Micro Devices had a market value of $16 billion, twice that of its technology partner,defense contractor TRW.