Semitool founder Ray Thompson shares his business lessons with the Kalispell Chamber of Commerce

Thompson said the integrity and trustworthiness of his employees is why the company set up shop in Kalispell in the first place.

Semitool http://www.semitool.com/ founder Ray Thompson has weathered his share of economic ups and downs, including the time he reduced his work force from 220 employees to a skeleton crew of just 19 to survive a particularly difficult time.

Thompson shared lessons learned over more than 30 years in the sometimes volatile semiconductor industry at the Kalispell Chamber of Commerce http://www.kalispellchamber.com/ monthly luncheon on Tuesday. He was the second speaker in the chamber’s yearlong campaign for free enterprise.

By ERIKA HOEFER/Daily Inter Lake

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