The best professional complement I ever received was from an IBM salesman, Lee Cort. We met at an ISA(Instrument Society of America) trade show in Houston and he told me: “You’re Rigdon Currie? I have been chasing you all over the Gulf Coast and have yet to go to a prospect that you had not visited. How you made a computer with a drum (the RW 300) so exciting is a mystery”.
I also knew Tommy Spain, IBM Corporate Director of Industry Relations (competition) and Wally Doud, Corporate VP 0f Industry and Trade Relations. I had gotten to know Wally through our two weeks at the Aspen institute and later knew both through our involvement with CBEMA (Computer And Business Equipment Manufacturer’s Association).
Tommy and i became ver good friends and business partners in Currie Spain, a consulting firm helping companies deal with IBM and Xerox. I let Tommy down in that project because I went on to form Pacific Venture Partners. I will always regret that.
I was also asked by Xerox management to be the “Xerox witness” in the US vs IBM Antitrust suit, I spent two months preparing for this lawsuit and spent a full week on the witness stand in the Federal Courthouse in Manhattan. At the end of my testimony, the lawyers for both the US Government and IBM came up and thanked me for my testimony, saying that ”I had helped their case!”. I did not try to help anyone and just tried to give clear, succinct answers to the questions I was asked…
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