GORDON BELL, ADAM! That was a great episode. The most amazing thing to me was how this guy was just messing around, a compression hobbyist, if you will - and then he is being courted by FAANG companies. He just walked into it, almost by accident.
I work in VMWare Fusion on a Mac, in a Mint guest OS, and zipping these huge instances for backup will take forever with a single core. Pigz punishes all 12 cores on my Mac mini and saves me a ton of time.