Different Apogee. Presumably you are thinking of Apogee Electronics, he is talking about Apogee Games, which more or less* became 3D Realms (of Duke Nukem infamy), and who back in the day published a lot of the classic shareware games from other developers as well, including id's early stuff like Commander Keen and Wolf 3D.

* "more or less" because the business structure is more complicated than that and there was still an Apogee Software alongside 3D Realms, but for all practical purposes, what was Apogee Games became 3D Realms and then died due to the Duke Nukem Forever project.