In this episode of the Think Small Podcast, Keith Smith, President and CEO of Vonco Products, shares one of the most instructive origin stories the show has featured: a career that started on a factory floor at $9 an hour, ran through engineering school paid for by his employer, an MBA, and a front-row seat to a corporate divestiture, before arriving at the acquisition of a 70-year-old contract manufacturer in Trevor, Wisconsin that Keith initially planned to take into food packaging. The market had other ideas. By 2016 and 2017, inbound demand from medical device manufacturers kept arriving uninvited, and Keith followed where the demand led, ultimately transforming Vonco into a turnkey medical device contract manufacturer making products that go into and out of the human body for customers like Medtronic and major health system supply chains acr ...