After reading previous posts:
1. Marc, egotist
2: Steve, humble Gentleman who has found himself in a place probably unimagined by him a few years ago, who doesn't care if sweatbands are made of kangaroo and doesn't count the number of scenes saying mine or his
Gosh, where did this idea come from? Thanks for the compliments for me, but you have Marc figured ALL WRONG. Marc is not that way at all. Just ask anyone who really knows him. I know him, and he is one of my best friends.
I think I am mentioned more only because I started the AB Hat Co. But Marc and I were already spending hours on the phone way back then nitpicking blockshapes, etc. When I started finally making my own line of hats, I asked my best friend to join me, as he was as obsessed as I was with this hat. It took him awhile to finally get started, but once he did, he produced a great hat, and a hat I am personally proud of.
I think your idea of Marc is off base, and trust me, Marc is not the way you painted him. Far from it.
Marc did not want to take any of my sales away, so he did what Hatsdirect did,(with their Federation) he offered a Deluxe model of the AB. At the time, I was willing to give him half of my sales, but he opted for the Deluxe version. He wanted a little more exotic hat, with the roohide sweats, etc, but the basic hat was the same, only upgraded.
Our partnership has always been one of friendship, with a shared obsession. A perfect match.
When we both had to send hats to the Indy 4 production, we knew that only one would be picked, but being friends, and doing this hatmaking deal for reasons other than profit, we mutually agreed very quickly that regardless of which hat was picked, we would include the other in making the film hats. And that is what we did. This is what you do when friendship is more important than business. And that is what you do when people are more important than money. We started out together sharing, and we ended up sharing. And that is what a good life is all about. It's all about people folks, and nothing else, regardless of what you have been told. And it is always more fun, if you can take another along for the ride. That is exactly what we did. Fedora
In my email exchanges with Marc, he has consistently been humble (to the point of being self-effacing) and patient in dealing with some nitpicky (and, frankly, occasionally silly) requests on my part vis-a-vis my AB Deluxe order. 
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