"The kind of shooting he did in the Marine Corps Reserves was different to the one done internationally at events like the Olympics, however. In order to get go

"The kind of shooting he did in the Marine Corps Reserves was different to the one done internationally at events like the Olympics, however. In order to get good enough to compete internationally in that other style, he knew he'd have to train full-time for a year or two. But to do that he needed more money....He switched the company focus wholly to graphics software and utilities. Two years later, in February 1990 Jackson sold the company to Aldus Corporation for exactly the amount he needed in order to train in international style rapid-fire pistol shooting full-time. A year later he started training, and by the middle of 1993, at forty-three years of age, he made the US team." Incredible that sometimes the "I'll get rich first so I can X fulltime!" plans actually do work out.