East is Yeast
Dear Yeast,
Hmmm. Well, it looks like these guys aren't quite dead, but they may be dying slowly. Their Website isn't working, so I called them up. The receptionist wasn't very helpful except to say Rasvia wasn't interested in talking to me. Neither was T.C. Chen, formerly the company's CTO and now (evidently) its president.
But here's what I found out: Peter Shambora, former founder, president, and CEO of Rasvia, has been long gone. Another founder, Ron Lee, who was previously VP of engineering, has also left the company. Reached by phone, Lee told me: "The company has been moving along, but there was quite a bit of headcount reduction in the U.S." He didn't have specific numbers but says Rasvia's Taiwan facility hasn't been cut back as drastically.
Farid Neema, president of consulting firm Peripheral Concepts Inc., says he doesn't think Rasvia really knew what it wanted to be doing. "Their idea was mostly that they were going to be manufacturing cheaper than other vendors, but I kept wondering what would prevent anyone else from doing the same thing," he says. That makes at least two of us, pal.
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