We had to reset the company or go out of business. But we didn't know how to build it the way that Microsoft had defined it. I remember meeting on a weekend, and the conversation was, we now have 89 competitors. I understood that the way we did it wasn't right, but we didn't know how to do it the right way.
Thankfully, there was another bookstore, Fry's Electronics. I don't know if it's still here. I think I drove Madison, my daughter, on a weekend to Fry's, and it was sitting right there—the OpenGL manual, which defined how Silicon Graphics did computer graphics.
It was right there, about $68 a book. I had a couple hundred dollars, so I bought three books. I took them back to the office and said, guys, I found it—our future. I handed out three copies, and there was a big, nice centerfold. The centerfold was the OpenGL pipeline, which is the computer graphics pipeline.
I handed it to the same geniuses that I founded the company with. That was the moment we found our direction.
