Six Degrees of Steve Johnson - The Retirement Party
About this Event
Steve Johnson is retiring from the South Carolina Research Authority, and we’re not letting him leave quietly!
We call Steve South Carolina’s own Kevin Bacon. Part of that is the looks, obviously. The other part is the connections. Anyone in Hollywood is supposedly six steps from Kevin Bacon. Anyone who’s built a startup in South Carolina is about one step from Steve.
Just ask Global Transplant Solutions. The Spartanburg company was shipping in Styrofoam-lined boxes with a breakage rate of about 20%. Steve knew a Williamston company, Bubble Paper, that made paper-based insulation, so he introduced the founders. Breakage fell to almost zero.
“All because Steve Johnson said, ‘Wait! I know a guy,’” John Bruens, the company’s founder and CEO, told the Upstate Business Journal in 2023.
A lot of founders in this state have a story like that. Come tell Steve yours, and help us send him off right!!
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