Both grew family businesses beyond the borders of the United States — Mr. Fischer by inventing an ice and beverage dispenser and Mr. Gray by building specialty factories for foreign manufacturers in the United States.
In the ensuing years the other major studios followed suit (Sony already had a boutique with Sony Pictures Classics), building specialty divisions, snapping up talent and writing bigger and bigger checks.
Mr. Zanghi started crewing for dragsters and funny cars after high school and even went to college for a while, but dropped out to start his own business building specialty trailers for heavy equipment.
The first, called Accelchip, started in 2000, sells software that helps chipmakers such as Intel and Xilinx save critical time when building specialty processors for applications such as videogames and cell phones.
Application companies, in the meantime, can hope to see their programs run on many more handsets and so spend their time building specialty features like new languages for speech recognition or digital-rights software for mobile music sales, Rubin contends.
It has pedestrian-friendly brick streets, turn-of-the-century buildings, specialty shops, galleries, live theater, two multiscreen movies, theaters and restaurants, and has become the center of Fort Worth's night life.
Construction Specialties is integrating Oracle Commerce Cloud and Oracle CPQ Cloud with Oracle Supply Chain Cloud and Oracle ERP Cloud, enabling the 70-year old manufacturer of specialty building products to grow its market share.
His grandsons now run the business, which supplies the retail market at the front of the building and specialty food stores around the Northeast.
Not least, he did so by building a specialty division, Paramount Vantage, that delivered a spate of awards contenders — including "Babel," "Into the Wild," and, with Miramax, "There Will Be Blood" and "No Country for Old Men" — only to shut it down quickly.
In 2013, policymakers sought to relax regulations for applicants interested in building single specialty ASCs.
