I remember that my father's friend used to work at GE and rose up to top of consumer appliance division in APAC but fought against Jack Welch at the time, and eventually he left the company and started his own business which is analogue record player. But the player is unusual because the needle isn't made of ordinary metal, but involved some kind of laser technology.
http://www.laserturntable.com/
Since it doesn't scratch on record physically, it doesn't get damage by playing year by year. That's amazing technology. However, it costs a lot as well. I heard least costs 3 million yen, which is like US$40,000. I also heard that Stevie Wonder came to buy 3 of them. And one day, a guy from UK embassy asked to my father 's friend. The Queen is interested in the Laser turntable. Yes and actually she bought it. Thing is she paid 3 million Great Britain Pound instead of 3 million yen. Of course, the supplier of turntable send a letter to UK embassy, she paid in wrong currency. It's quite amazing that the embassy replied he didn't need to pay back because Queen doesn't make mistake.
As a consequence, he got 500 millions yen for selling one player. But even that he isn't that rich, because he spent so much money to invest to develop this product. Yeah he is passionated guy even he fought Jack Welch.
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