An Oral History Interview with Jim Fruchterman, Part 4 of 4
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Jim Fruchterman (continued): Richard Chandler was still around, trying to make a deal and he came up to me and he said, "Tell me what you really want to do."
That's a good enough opening for me. I'll tell anyone what I really want to do. I said, "I have all these ideas for the projects I could be doing. This Bookshare concept, I think by this time was circulating. I want to do a lot of human rights work. I think there's a lot more projects in the disability field that we could be doing.
So he said, "Can we structure this so that you can go off and do these new things and I can buy Arkenstone, which I want to basically add to Blazie and Henter and make a stronger company?"
And so I said, "Yeah, but I don't want to come work for you. You're the founder." You get acquired but Deane and ted had to sign some part of their life away, these guys.