Brian Maucere
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Well, he does, we assume, because he actually...
built and sold PSPDF kit.
What is that?
What did he do with it?
Well, he sold it for $100 million, so it wasn't nothing.
And this was back in like 2010, from what I can understand in that range.
And essentially, a PDF framework and SDK that enabled document viewing, annotation, collaboration, and e-signing across iOS, Android, web,
and other platforms.
We all know that this technology, we've been doing this with e-signs for many, many years, whether he was the only one, but he was one of the ones to do it.
And so he got big names like you probably used his tool in some version through Dropbox, DocuSign.
It says SAP, IBM, Volkswagen, European Patent Office.
They all use this technology.
And so he had an exit.
And then he had sort of a profound like this again, coming from his sort of quoting him and what perplexity is telling us.
He kind of had like a three year period where he didn't even touch the computer.
He had sort of a crisis of identity of who am I?
He went around and partied, as you do when you make 100 million dollars.
You're probably young at that point.
And, you know, I imagine this guy like just hitting it in Ibiza, you know, just be like, what is my life?
You know, I don't really know this guy, but I just that's the image I had in my head was this guy just just pumping it at 3 a.m.