Founder of Home Building Shea Homes - Edmund H. Shea, Jr. Dies at 80 (Part II)

"When I phoned on the day of closing, he called his assistant to pick up the phone, said:" I have to keep clean, then I have to walk the dog groomer and take the dog and, oh, Bobby Kotick said, can bind a million and half dollars, "said Kotick." I'm not sure I was even first on his list that day. "
The investment has been incredible triumph as Activision has turned into a giant electronic game with a market capitalization of 13 billion dollars. Remainedclose to the young entrepreneur. said: "He was one of my mentors," said Kotick.
Shea has had a long relationship with Hambrecht & Quist, and has served as director until not long before it was acquired by Chase Bank in 1998. Mr. Hambrecht said. "It was a great partner of mine in the true sense of the word, for more than 42 years, he listened with an open mind to almost every idea, but retained a sense of discipline and business practice that was so often" ballast "in the our decision. "
In1958, together with his cousin John F. Shea and his brother Peter O. Shea, Shea made JF Shea Co., Inc. as successor to the family construction company, which had begun on his father's father in 1881 as a plumbing company in the city of Portland. Shea's predecessor company had leading roles in the creation of public works contracts symbolic United States, as the Hoover Dam, the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco Bay Bridge.

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