In 1988 I joined Microtek 全友電腦 founded by Taiwanese-American entrepreneurs in Los Angeles whom had left Xerox. We worked on the introduction of a newer breed of imaging peripherals and OCR technologies fit for digital creatives. The company listed on the Taiwan exchange that same year in Taiwan while North American sales were starting to build up. Microtek’s IPO was one of Taiwan’s first initial offerings. We were fairly good and scrappy. We had dedicated product managers and a brand marketing team, customer service, and engineering staff in CA that worked closely with corporate management, R&D, and manufacturing out of Hsinchu Science Park. There was confluence and lots of traveling back and forth. It was integrative. The staff was multicultural, professional, and savvy with the tech media garnering strong relationships with press which at the time were publishers of MacUser, PC Magazine, and Byte. We had over 150 employees in the US operation.