Stumbled across this interview with Greg Hendershott from Nov 12, 2007 - 20 years to the day of it's creation.
 
http://createdigitalmusic.com/2007/11/interview-cakewalk-founder-greg-hendershott-20-years-on/
 
 

yep - good article!  I've read it before.  it's outdated, now, tho.  Greg is no longer with the company!

Yeah, I know but got to thinking about my first encounter with the product.  My wife and I made a album (cassette) in 1991 and my friend and producer sequenced a couple of covers with this new sequencer software - wow!

still have the cassette?  and something to play it on? 

Haha indeed I do although we gave more away than we sold. If I get time I'll try to post some clips of the sequenced ones.

  I believe he has remained to help on the board of  directors.

According to his Blog on Google, he'll remain available for consultation for a while - which isn't uncommon. But he has retired from Cakewalk.

My Cakewalk history starts with ProAudio 4 (in 1900 according to my Cakewalk Store account) and is still going strong thru X1 and will continue on into X2.

TBH, I did not really start in earnest until SONAR 6/7 (and for some reason I skipped SONAR 2) as I never had the computing power or interface worthy of replacing my Tascam 80-8 or my ADATS. At SOANR 6 I was ready to go totally ITB.

Other than developing and teaching a very basic sequencing course at a Jr College, I didn't get into the audio side until Sonar XL.

Where it all started for me...