> But Smith and Cuscuna now are severed from their creation. Cuscuna told Marker that the bankruptcy allowed, in her words, “bottom-feeders,” to snap up the com

> But Smith and Cuscuna now are severed from their creation. Cuscuna told Marker that the bankruptcy allowed, in her words, “bottom-feeders,” to snap up the company, and says it was clear from the start that they couldn’t work together. Zapata, she says, wasn’t particularly interested in them, and she was not interested in “defending her worth.” (“Nobody’s irreplaceable,” Zapata explains, something he says he learned in his Navy SEALs days.) Zapata says he did eventually offer them roles, but they declined. Smith says he does not regret this. “We would have been miserable trying to operate with somebody’s vision who didn’t support us.” Ouch. Sounds like maybe their personalities got in the way of the business.