Mike Zisman

Started the first company, SoftSwitch, which was in the communication software business.

It was very low-level communication software sold to Fortune 500 companies.

That was acquired by Lotus Development in 1994.

And then lo and behold, 11 months later, IBM came along and acquired Lotus.

So in 11 months, I went from a company of 450 people, my company, to Lotus, which was 6,000, to IBM, which was a quarter million.

They were different.

Trust me, they were different.

Not good versus bad, because it's amazing what you can accomplish when you have a quarter million people trying to do something.

And I stayed at IBM for a while.

I worked with Lou Gerstner, who was this fantastic CEO.

He turned around IBM, absolutely.

And then that kind of ran its course and left IBM in 07.

You know, I really don't want to retire.

I love what I do.

I mean, I was always the guy organizing the buddy golf trip.

You know, 12 guys go off someplace to play golf.

We're still servicing.

It's a small market, a very price sensitive market.

And move from that to golf leagues.

And so instead of 12 guys playing six rounds of golf, you got, you know, 60 guys playing 20 rounds of golf and then move from that to selling to clubs.