Ashton-Tate

the owner was who

okay so I asked the skateboarder kid who's the principal owner and decision-maker and he tells me it's George Tate George Tate blew my mind it was like the my head exploded because the was Ashton Tate with a database management program called Dbase2.

And I realized all at once that this dinky little store on Pico Boulevard is owned by one of the principal titans and movers and shakers in the beginning of the software revolution.

That day.

Lotus 1-2-3 was the spreadsheet.

Ashton Tate's D-Base 2 was a database management program, and it was the beginning of Microsoft Word as the word processor.

I'm sitting next to Mitch Kapoor.

I know nothing about what I just said, nothing.

I said, well, who do I go to? He said, well, you got to go to George Tate.

Now, I hope our audience captures this.

Ashton Tate, D-Base 2, owns this little retail store.

Whoa.