Cockos was founded in 2004 by Justin Frankel after his departure from Nullsoft.
[1] The company name stems from mis-hearing a quote from the movie Office Space.
[6] Justin Frankel, the company founder, probably best known for his work on the Winamp media player application, and John Schwartz, who joined Cockos in 2008 and is the author of many audio plug-ins, notably a virtual analogue synthesizer called Olga.
Christophe Thibault, an old colleague of Frankel's from his Nullsoft days,[1] was a Cockos employee between 2005 and 2014.
Thibault is a French programmer and was the founder of the Kaillera and K-Meleon projects.