ERIC BARNES
SHIMMER
In just three years, CEO Robbie Case has grown Core Communications, a data technology company, from 30 people to over 5,000. Now a $20 billion company made legendary by its sudden success, Core is based on a technology no other company can come close to copying, a revolutionary breakthrough known as
At some point it would become clear that I was not well. The people who would see it first, they saw it and had no reason to care. The people who should have seen it next, they were in no state to notice. Yet somewhere, at some point, I would see it myself. Probably I could have seen it all along. But then, back then, I was not seeing anything very clearly at all. I was Robbie Case, the thirty-five-year-old CEO and largest single shareholder of Core Communications, a new world company that had, in just thirty-six months, become the de facto highway for the nation
Eric Barnes is the publisher of the Daily News in Memphis and of The Memphis News. He was formerly COO of a communications corporation, a reporter and editor. He grew up in Washington and Alaska, working construction and in the fisheries, and has an MFA from Columbia University. This is his first novel. Author photo by Brad Johnson.
