Page 10 - MIL 40th Anniversary

MIL: Back to the Future

Ronald Reagan is elected. Mount St. Helens erupts. Who shot J.R.? The year is 1980, and it
would be our very first chance to watch CNN news, view high-res images of Saturn thanks
to Voyager 1, and devote countless hours trying to solve Rubik’s cube.
1980 would also serve as a seminal year for technology—from domestic camcorders and
fax machines to Post-it notes and Pac Man—1980 served as the birth of a decade that
would witness the eventual assimilation of portable phones and personal computers into
everyday consumer life.

During 1980’s mini tech boom, a small startup company would be launched around
a dining room table that would grow and evolve and eventually mature into The MIL
Corporation of today. Who knew that the company whose total employee roster could fit
around that small table would still be working its mission statement four decades later?
For starters, corporate founder and CEO Butch Long.
After Butch’s four decades of leadership, MIL is still privately held and still maintains
that same upstart approach that kept the company afloat when other, similar corporate
launches were unsuccessful. So, what made the difference? Why did MIL persist and prevail
when other companies desisted and failed?

prevailing through our upstart approach