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Chet Pipkin was the kind of kid who loved to take things apart and put them back together. As a young man in the early 1980s he started hanging out in mom-and-pop computer shops where he realized he could meet a growing need by selling the cables that connect computers to printers. That simple idea became the main ingredient in Chet's secret sauce: instead of making his own computers he would make the accessories needed to make them work. Belkin International eventually grew into a massive ma

Belkin International: Chet Pipkin

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