A Chat with John Economaki, Founder and President, Bridge City Tool Works

CS: What's your definition of success?

JE: I am one-half of a parent team that can claim two intelligent adult children who are living and leading responsible lives. I'm a guy with two kids, and they've caused me no problems, and they're self-sufficient for the most part. I think that's a huge deal. Looking back, there's nothing more important to me than that. It's a scary world out there, and to know that they can find their way around, that's a big deal to me. Do I think that someday my son will want to make stuff? I think he will. He's starting to see that I'm not the nerd he once thought I was.