That was me who mentioned it.
I was working as a full time gardener on his winter estate in Port Royal, Naples for
the man who started Cable Vision Industries, and who lived most of the year in Liberty, NY.
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Alan Gerry started building a cable TV network in upstate New York in 1956. It became Cablevision Industries, which at its peak had 64 cable systems in 18 states. Gerry sold Cablevision Industries to Time Warner in 1996 for a reported $2.7 billion; he pocketed an estimated $900 million.
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After about a year I moved on and into a sales management position with Lesco. Inc - one of the leading Green Industry suppliers, where I worked for the next 10 years.
Alan had a person in town (Naples) who owned his own cleaning business and who also acted as Alan's contact person and coordinator of all things pertaining to his winter estate.
Willis and I happened to be talking one day about how to fit everything possible into a day.
That's when he shared with me what you, Steve, are calling the 8-8-8 rule.
40 years later and it has stuck with me as one of those theories that makes a lot of sense but good luck trying to adhere to it.