This sounds like a joke, but I actually met a guy in the early 90's who wrote a Quicken/Microsoft Money competitor as a series of VB Excel macros, who then join

This sounds like a joke, but I actually met a guy in the early 90's who wrote a Quicken/Microsoft Money competitor as a series of VB Excel macros, who then joined in on the Microsoft anti-trust suit, when Microsoft made moves to try and squash him.