Kim Blickenstaff, Chairman / CEO, has been hugely successful in spite of all experts who told him it would be impossible -- that they had "a stupid idea." More...
Ken Buechler and his two partners, Gunars Valkirs and Kim Blickenstaff, worked together before they launched Biosite. They respected each others talents.
At the beginning stages of Biosite, the need for rapid testing was laughed at by the big boys in the diagnostic industry. This fact would have made getting a bank loan impossible.
Ken Buechler says that employees of Biosite are offered stock because he and his partners believe in the idea that giving something leaves the giver richer.