Founding
DAK Industries was founded in 1966 and during the 1980s became a thriving mail-order electronics firm based in Canoga Park, Los Angeles, California. A gadget freak, Kaplan founded his business while studying psychology at UCLA. On the side, he sold reel-to-reel tapes and installed stereos.
Kaplan spent five years at UCLA, but never earned a degree, then went into business full-time, setting up shop in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, to sell recording tapes. The Los Angeles Times once called DAK "the L.L. Bean of consumer electronics", adding though that Kaplan was reclusive and rarely granted interviews, and refused to be photographed.
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