"A" Students Work for "C" Students
Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2017 9:26 pm
I was talking about this old saying with the boys the other day. I think there is a lot to this axiom.
On a tour of local businesses today, I ran across the perfect example of this.
I am still in awe of this business, that was built by 2 brothers that are old family friends that went no further than high school for education. We have lost touch with them recently and I had not seen their new 2015 factory/shop or whatever you want to call it.
It is unfrickinbelievable
https://www.bakkobros.com/
If you scroll down the page, you will see a picture of the brothers, Steve and Loren Bakko. They are about 53 and 46 YO. If you saw them on the street, you would likely never suspect that they each own a jet, largely for business reasons, and run a multi-multi million dollar business with an international presence.
Loren is the brains of the outfit and, as everybody says, he is one-in-a-million, maybe one in 10 million. Nobody else could have built what he has built. He also has the perfect wife for this life that he has.
Everybody that knows them is simply in awe of these guys, especially Loren.
As you may see by the picture, they poured howver many thousands of yards of concrete for their new shop. As they have done with previous projects, they are the types that doesn't hire it done, they put their own cement plant on site and buy ingredients by the car load.
I talked to one of the mechanics that was showing us the service truck, I asked him how far do you go with the truck. This is Minnesota and he said he has been to Texas twice, New York, Indiana -wherever.
They "Over-Engineer" everything and they recently built their own runway-just north of the shop. Per others, the concrete for that is unbelievably thick-maybe 18 inches-but I don't know for sure.
On a tour of local businesses today, I ran across the perfect example of this.
I am still in awe of this business, that was built by 2 brothers that are old family friends that went no further than high school for education. We have lost touch with them recently and I had not seen their new 2015 factory/shop or whatever you want to call it.
It is unfrickinbelievable
https://www.bakkobros.com/
If you scroll down the page, you will see a picture of the brothers, Steve and Loren Bakko. They are about 53 and 46 YO. If you saw them on the street, you would likely never suspect that they each own a jet, largely for business reasons, and run a multi-multi million dollar business with an international presence.
Loren is the brains of the outfit and, as everybody says, he is one-in-a-million, maybe one in 10 million. Nobody else could have built what he has built. He also has the perfect wife for this life that he has.
Everybody that knows them is simply in awe of these guys, especially Loren.
As you may see by the picture, they poured howver many thousands of yards of concrete for their new shop. As they have done with previous projects, they are the types that doesn't hire it done, they put their own cement plant on site and buy ingredients by the car load.
I talked to one of the mechanics that was showing us the service truck, I asked him how far do you go with the truck. This is Minnesota and he said he has been to Texas twice, New York, Indiana -wherever.
They "Over-Engineer" everything and they recently built their own runway-just north of the shop. Per others, the concrete for that is unbelievably thick-maybe 18 inches-but I don't know for sure.
