Word: gaidano
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Gaidano still has that floppy, framed, in his office. The data have not been recovered. But this nightmarish experience, familiar to many, put Gaidano on the road to creating a very profitable company. Data-storage devices, he knew, were getting larger every year. While the maximum size of a disc drive in 1984 was 30 MB, today a 120-GB hard drive--that's 400 times as much storage--sells for less than $120. But the basic technology has changed little, so the amount of lost data swells each year. That's why Gaidano and partner Jay Hagan created DriveSavers...
...marsh outside the town of Novato, 20 miles north of San Francisco, DriveSavers cultivates a low-key image. There is no sign on the firm's office building and no obvious front door. DriveSavers does a lot of business with the more secretive branches of government, which, Gaidano says, prefer that his firm keep a low profile...
...with the server's hard drive--and while crossing the Golden Gate Bridge thought to himself, "If this doesn't work out, it's a one-way trip." This required a step beyond data-crisis counseling. While engineers took the executive's drive apart and got it spinning again, Gaidano took him on a Napa winery tour. Sampling the merchandise seemed to help...
...major hard-drive makers, like Toshiba and Western Digital, meaning you can use its services without breaking the drive's warranty. This began when former manufacturer Micropolis had hard-drive failures in its own office and had to sheepishly admit it was unable to fix its own creations. Gaidano was there to help...
...Gaidano has no plans to expand the company beyond 40 employees or take it public. DriveSavers works so well, he says, precisely because it is small and nimble. Beyond acquiring expertise in new drive types--such as the CompactFlash cards used in digital cameras and the tiny drives in Apple's iPod--there is no need to diversify. Everyone seems happy with their compensation. Why bother to grow? CBL's CEO, Bill Margeson, currently expanding into Europe and Australia, says Gaidano and his troops are beholden to the Hollywood crowd and "haven't taken the initiative...