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Gore has grown revenues to nearly $3 billion and consistently turned a profit since its founding in 1958. It has approximately 9000 employees at 30 locations worldwide.
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“communication really happens in the carpool,”
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9,000 employees located in 30 countries worldwide
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“You join a team and you’re an idiot…It takes 18 months to build credibility. Early on, it’s really frustrating. In hindsight, it makes sense.”
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“dabble time.” All associates have about 10% of their work week free to dabble, to work on an initiative of their own choosing – assuming they are fulfilling their primary commitments. Someone with what they think is a breakthrough idea becomes a product champion, and must compete for talented individuals’ dabble time, to work on his or her project. If he or she can’t rally a team, maybe it’s not such a great idea, or needs refinement.
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s as diverse as synthetic vascular grafts, Elixir guitar strings, and Glide dental floss. Lauded as "the world's most innovative company" time and time again, Gore's wholly original (and endlessly inspirational) model for creating a true democracy of innovation is firmly rooted in the story of founder Bill Gore. More than half a century ago, in 1958, Bill Gore quit DuPont to start a business aimed at imagining and commercializing new uses for polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE)—the material popularized as Gore-Tex. Bu
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