DEC. 13, 2010 PHOTO; MANDATORY CREDIT; ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS OUT; KARE11/TENGA AND NBC AFFILIATES OUT; WCCO AND CBS AFFILIATES OUT; KMSP AND FOX AFFILIATES OUT; KSTP AND ABC AFFILIATES OUT; TPT AND PBS AFFILIATES OUT
In this Dec. 13, 2010 photo, Earl Bakken, an electronics repairman who started one of the world's largest medical device companies in 1949, poses at the Medtronic World Headquarters in Fridley, Minn. Medtronic said in a statement that co-founder Bakken died Sunday, Oct. 21, 2018, at his home in Hawaii. (David Brewster/Star Tribune via AP)