Jim Estill Sells Billions of Dollars Worth of Computer Equipment

Jim Estill’s an incredible success story. Canadian boy (woohoo!), starts by selling computer equipment out of his car. Some time later he’s running EMJ Data, which went public and made oodles and oodles of money. He’s now CEO of SYNNEX.
SYNNEX sells over a billion dollars of computer equipment in Canada each year. A freaking billion dollars.
This is a brief interview done via email with Jim. For a big-time CEO he’s amazingly available, I’ve had some great conversations with him over the last year. He reads voraciously (I forgot to ask him how fast he actually reads) and blogs about …read more