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John “Tip” Miller began his career in St. Paul, Minnesota, at a time when the Twin Cities were what Silicon Valley is now, the epicenter of the computer revolution. The company he worked for, UNIVAC, was already legendary as the maker of the world’s first commercial computer, and the Twin Cities teemed with tech startups spinning off from UNIVAC. Miller eventually helped found one of them, Atron.
When Miller started his own company on a North Dakota reservation a few years later, computer memory was still being made by hand. Since the task required exceptional precision, Miller leveraged the dexterity and craftsmanship of members of the Chippewa tribe in his home state, thereby ensuring consistent delivery of a high-quality product. Ignoring the many skeptics, who doubted the viability of a high-tech manufacturing company in a remote rural area, he grew his company into a successful electronics manufacturing business.
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