Vermont : A Love Story
fancy sound systems . But the cassettes sounded awful , because they were duplicated at high speed . So I flew out and met with Bose . And I said , ‘ We can make you a cassette that is going to really sound phenomenal . Here ’ s an example ’. And they played , it and they were blown away .” system , and everything will sound like our demo ’. We got the contract to make them for the entire North America market .
“ And then the video cassette thing began . I bought a bunch of video cassette decks and we ’ re in the video cassette duplication business . It just went on from there .” up an offer , saying they can get a copy of this segment alone ? All you have to do is put up our 800 number . We ’ ll answer the phone . ‘ Thank you for calling 60 Minutes .’ And it took off . We sold 30,000 videos .”
“ Then someone at CBS went to work for TIME LIFE and called us up .”
And how did he know how to do that ?
“ We knew that the technology for making high speed tech cassettes made very bad-sounding cassettes . Every once in a while , somebody would come and do an album and they ’ d order a bunch of cassettes . If we made the cassettes on our machines , they sounded great in real time . If we sent them away to be done in high speed ? They sounded terrible .”
“ So I told Bose , ‘ We can build you a
Bill speaks of this growth nonchalantly , as if it were just an everyday occurrence , not realizing somehow , how extraordinary were the relationships he created .
I was still mesmerized . You just knocked on the door of TIME LIFE and said , ‘ Hey , we ’ re doing this ?’
“ Actually , first I went to CBS and I said , every Sunday you do 60 Minutes and there are three segments , and people are interested in those . How about if you put
And they grew . In Vermont .
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