I worked on a project in 2000 where I was using third-party simulation software to demo some of the capabilities of our product. It looked pretty cool. I couldn't figure out why Powerpoint slides wouldn't cut it, but whatever, it was fun work. I was green, and the entire business side was a mystery to me.

Then the Harvard MBA who initiated the project showed me what he had done. He had used a Windows binary editor to rebrand the third-party simulation software to make it look like ours. "If the product is successful we'll contact them and work out something." Product? He didn't outright tell me, but he said enough for me to realize he was going to present it as a GUI management tool for our software to a company they were trying to make a sale to.

I was already on my way out the door at that company, so I just kept my head down. I do know the demo never happened, so maybe somebody with better sense reigned him in.