Dave Plummer

I said, yeah.

And she said, well, this is Betsy from Microsoft and we'd like you to come by and come in and talk about an acquisition of it.

I said, okay, what building are you in?

She's like, what do you mean?

I said, well, I'll come by.

And she said, well, no, you've got to talk to travel and you've got to talk to legal and this all has to be set up.

And I'm like, I don't get it.

We both work at the same place.

Why can't I just stop by?

I don't know if I said that literally, but it was a few minutes of back and forth where we both realized that she didn't know I worked there.

They just cold called the author and then found out that it was me.

Yeah, that's funny.

So they made me an offer on it.

And it's the kind of thing where if I don't accept the offer, now my choices are I can keep selling my own version and quit Microsoft, or I can stop selling my own version and work for Microsoft.

Neither of those is great.

I mean, I keep my job, of course, but I'd like to still have this income stream.

And the other option was accept their offer, which is what I did.

So then I bought a used 93 red Corvette.

I did.

So we took a lot of features out, right, to simplify it because it had encryption and it had a number of features that were common in zip programs of the day, but probably weren't appropriate for Windows.