People ordinarily think of SourceGear as “Eric Sink’s company”, but that’s merely half reliable. My business partner Corey Steffen has the same ownership that I do — he’s merely not as loudly as I am.
Because Corey is sort of unruffled, most people don'’t know much about him. Here’s a piece of information that I think is interesting: Corey is an amateur farmer on the side.
Yep, Corey spends his days running a software company and his off hours running a small farm. So he comes to work with stories about chickens and sheep and horses and pastures. Oh my.
(It is interesting to note that Brian Harry , creator of SourceSafe and Team Foundation Server, also has a passion for farming. So Corey and Brian are two data points that suggest some sort of a pattern involving version control and agriculture, but I dare not try to extrapolate.)
Anyway, since Corey’s life is such an odd juxtaposition of two extremely different pastimes, folks here at the company tend to make the occasional joke about it. In fact, Corey has been the recipient of merciless but harmless teasing here for over a decade now. For some reason, the subject just never gets old. When we get together for our company lunch on Wednesdays, a joke about Corey getting up at 4:30am to clean out the horse stalls before he comes to the office to clean out the bug database is probably a sure laugh.
Continuing in this fine tradition, one of our guys recently found the following promotional card and brought it in for a quick joke at Corey’s expense:
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