Frank Wilson Pritt III (1940–2015) was a salesperson and product manager for
Harris Corporation
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in the 1970s, then founder of
Attachmate Corporation in 1982. Attachmate went on to become
Washington
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's largest privately held
software
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firm. He was listed on
Forbes
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' list of 400 richest Americans in October 1995. He announced his retirement from Attachmate, where he had held the office of president, in 2005.
Frank Pritt and
Julia Pritt were Seattle software entrepreneurs, and co-founded Attachmate in their living room in 1982.
They were married for 28 years, divorcing in 1990.
On May 17, 2006 Frank listed his estate in
Orange County for sale with a price of $75 million. The estate, located in
Corona del Mar, CA, is named the
Portabello Estate. The estate finally sold towards the end of 2010 for $34.1 million plus the buyer also gave the seller a property valued at around $7 million.
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He died on July 28, 2015.
References
External links
Online Obituary for Frank Wilson Pritt III Forbes Magazine, January 27, 1997
by Burt Gearhart (blog)
The Architect Behind the $75 Million Dollar O.C. Estate, Orange County Register, January 31, 2008
American businesspeople
1940 births
2015 deaths
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