Thirty-five years. If you asked me 36 years ago if I would co-own and manage a business this long I would have said you were nuts. I was just 25 when Neal and I cofounded ADC with a whopping $35,000 in start-up capital. We rented a dilapidated 700-square-foot storefront in Copiague, New York, offering 31 items: a selection of leather and nylon EMT holsters and the instruments that go in them.