Nice to see someone else trying to put the pieces together on what may be going on behind the scenes....and your knowledge of "people". I agree with you on what may be happening. I checked Visser Precision Cast Parts. Could not find any "big return customers" as the web site indicates, but with Vissers money, who knows who came to who. Perhaps Visser convinced LQMT that he had great connections to "sell" the Liquid Metal concept, and promised to do so, for contracts. So LQMT had someone with deep pockets and connections. But also, as you pointed out..shrewed. Making an agreement that HE would be the only one to make parts, whatever way. Visser saw the future..but from reading about him..he also was VERY busy with his race car business. I can imagine perhaps
VISSER being hands on as far as his race car endeavors. He also runs Furniture Row..those are two very time consuming enterprises. (I assume he still has Furniture Row). So was Barney expected to work aggressively in getting his current cast parts customers to try "prototype" LQMT parts??? Is that what LQMT was expecting?? Is that what BARNEY said he could do??? But once he clinched the deal with the stock and the "I'll be the only parts maker agreement" he skipped out on marketing efforts...
too busy with his other enterprises. So LQMT scientists met with ENGEL scientists..Engel proposed a combined research effort..they developed the TURN KEY machine...ENGEL proposed selling the machines rather than making the parts through Visser because that was no way to rapidly expand
the use of Liquid Metal. Hence..the "non performance" of Busy Barney, and the need to cut ties. But Visser should have the foresight to know he can still have the machines and still supply Liquid Metal parts to his customers and increase his customer base...but his "I'll make all the parts agreement".
would have been a disaster to a world wide expansion plan.
I like the way you think...you're an observer of people.
