Dave Plummer

And there's a guy, he's got this beautiful three-bedroom house and a Corvette convertible, 93 red, torch red, parked in the driveway.

And the house is for sale, and it's like 300K, I think.

And there's no chance I'm coming up with 300K at that point, or even the down payment on that.

So...

I took the flyer and I cut the picture of the house out and I taped it to my monitor.

And that was my incentive to just write something at night.

Because when I came home, I was doing two things.

I was one, expressing a creativity that I couldn't get out at work when I was just fixing bugs.

And I was trying to make some extra money.

And so I wrote a shell extension before I actually went to the shell team.

I started it.

And that's what led to my interest in going to the shell team based on a MSDN sample or MSJ at the time, MSJ sample that I saw on how to like bring up a folder.

Well, once I had the very basic bring up a folder template, adding zip file support to it was just incremental all the way.

And I released it as a shareware product.

I think it was 1995 or 2995.

And I sold whatever, a couple of hundreds or thousands of copies.

And,

One day I'm getting ready for work and I get a call and it's a lady and she says, are you Dave Plummer?

And I said, yeah.

And she said, are you the guy that wrote Visual Zip?