Replying to
Alistair, who said...
Roger all of that.
Way back in the year of nineteen hundred and ninety eight I moved cross country to Seattle for a framebuilding job. Three weeks later I was being laid off. As is so often the case in the bike biz, the owner of the company was a very smart bike guy, not such a great business guy. Finding someone with enough knowledge in both of those fields (to be able to innovate, and run a successful business) is not as straightforward as it might seem, it seems. Also: You need some luck too.