I started out in the business working for a manufacturers’ rep on the Isle of Long. We represented a dozen or so companies in the plumbing and heating world. The plumbing guys and the heating guys worked in different rooms, and neither group knew much about what the other was up to.
I began as an assistant to my father. We processed the orders for NIBCO and, of course, on my first day, I asked him what a NIBCO was.