Tim Crown

Timothy A. Crown (born 1964, in Tucson, Arizona ), is the co-founder and current Chairman of the Board of Tempe, Arizona–based Insight Enterprises, an IT solutions company with annual revenue exceeding $5 billion.

Tim was born in Tucson, Arizona, in 1964. He has one sibling, Eric Crown. Their father, Jerry Crown, was in the military. As a result, they lived in many locations, both within the United States and in foreign countries. Tim attended three high schools, ultimately graduating in 1982 from Blue Valley High School, which is located in Stilwell, Kansas. Tim Crown also became an Eagle Scout during his youth.

Crown studied computer science and business at the University of Kansas, and he graduated in 1986. He was an active member of the Delta Chi fraternity. After one year working at NCR Corporation in Jackson, Mississippi, Tim moved to Phoenix, Arizona to start Hard Drives International with his brother.

Tim Crown's brother, Eric, studied at the W.P. Carey School of Business. Eric's senior project was a business plan for a company that directly sold computer components via the telephone (without currently having the inventory in stock that was being sold). To fulfill orders, the company would order units from a supplier, and then directly ship the components to the buyer, if possible. Eric received a grade of C for the project, because a grade of A was reserved only for projects that were viable in the "real" business world.

Upon Eric's graduation in 1986, the brothers obtained a $2,000 credit card advance to place a single advertisement in Computer Shopper, a computer parts magazine. The brothers wrote an advertisement and sent it to Computer Shopper for them to publish in their next magazine issue. At the time that the brothers wrote the advertisement, they were advertising a hard drive for a sales price less than the cost of purchasing the hard drive from a supplier. They were gambling that in the 20 days it would take to publish the magazine issue, the cost of a hard drive from a supplier would decrease so that it would be less than the selling price they wrote in the advertisement. This happened and their gamble paid off, making Hard Drives International famous for having the lowest prices on hard drives.

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