Bloomberg April 18, 2019
Even if your ears are fine, you might want a device that translates 27 languages, tracks fitness, and monitors vital signs.
When Brandon Sawalich started at Starkey Hearing Technologies in suburban Minneapolis, he was 19 and there were about 70 companies worldwide making hearing aids. That was 1994. His job was to clean the ones mailed in for repair or, occasionally, as returns, because the user was dead and no longer required them. Today, Sawalich is 43, there are five companies, and he’s president of Starkey, which employs 6,000 people and sold $800 million in hearing aids last year. “We’ve been right here in Eden Prairie since 1974,” Sawalich says as he walks me through company headquarters, then...
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