Wacko WYKO

Wyant, James C.

doi:10.1117/3.786604.ch11

Wacko WYKO

Book: Engineering a High-Tech Business: Entrepreneurial Experiences and Insights

Editor(s): José Miguel López-Higuera; Brian Culshaw

Author(s): James Wyant

Published: 2008

https://doi.org/10.1117/3.786604.ch11

Abstract

The WYKO Corporation was founded on Dec. 27, 1982, to design, manufacture, sell, and service metrology instruments for many applications, with the largest market being in the magnetic data-storage industry. In the next few pages I will discuss the formation, growth, and eventual selling of the WYKO Corporation to Veeco in 1997. For me, this was an unbelievable experience that was more fun than I ever dreamed anything could be.