
Stories From The Trenches - JSJ 556
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A Startup Company That Backported Windows 95 Client Software to Run on Windows 3.1 or 3.11
The company spent three years backporting its software to run on windows 3.1 and we succeeded it amazingly it worked so we actually were able to release that as a product now. We invested something like three men years of effort on supporting three users because that was a condition for getting the money from soft bank man who could have guessed that multimedia software would have caught on for a system that didn't have a multimedia player yeah well on the positive side we did get investment money and we were able to go public before the dot com bubble burst and the company did reach evaluation of a couple of billions of dollars before it went back to nothing. It turned out good in the end but uh but