The History of The Waite Group (in Mitch's own words)

This is extremely interesting. Mitch Waite lists the journey of his PC/Computing publishing powerhouse, from its humble beginings in 1972 to its demise in 2001.

He had one huge failure that whiped him out in the late 80s but he came back up.

The pages are hard to navigate, but click on the "Next Page" button on the bottom right of each page.

Mitch Waite's Waite Group was bigger than O'Reilly; he was HUGE. I found his ways of doing business strange and ill advised, but you will see he ran one of the earliest "lean" companies out there (averaging 2-4 employees most of his career, and 50 at the height of it!)

Really loved this article. Only 3 points though? This is why I stopped looking at the "Top Rated" HN articles.