I’ll take Spam for $800, Alex

I spent four and a half years working on Spam Arrest, starting as a contractor, then as its first employee, its lead engineer, and eventually as CTO. So, it was pretty cool when Brooke called me the other day to tell me that it had just been a clue on Jeopardy!.

1/6/2009 
Category: Spam
Amount: $800

“In 2007 this company lost a trademark suit against Spam Arrest, a Seattle maker of anti-spam software”

(What is Hormel)

- via J-Archive, an archive of every Jeopardy game ever.

Definitely better than my previous favorite media moments for Spam Arrest:

  1. #15 in Business 2.0 magazine’s “Dumbest Moments in Business” list for 2003
  2. When our attorney, being interviewed live on BBC news, repeatedly squeezed in pitches “we’ve got a special free offer for BBC listeners…”