He built software that powered one third of the email on the internet. Then the White House called and asked if it could send an email at 2 a.m. to start a war in Iraq. That's the moment John Buckman realized he'd lost control.In this conversation, John traces the moral arc of building and selling companies — from idealistic mission to slippery slope, from watching his parents buy a Porsche while facing bankruptcy, to creating a fair trade music company with a legal poison pill so no one could corrupt it. Now he builds high-end espresso machines in Hong Kong and is trying to create something that outlives him.
