Thank you, this comment is extremely astute. I'm not too terribly worried about cannibalization, as the media company is a subsidiary of the profit making busi

Thank you, this comment is extremely astute. I'm not too terribly worried about cannibalization, as the media company is a subsidiary of the profit making business, and they don't have a lot of profit making businesses in said subsidiary. I am worried about importing an engineering culture (I have worked my entire career for engineering-focused companies) into a very different environment. What makes this so attractive to me is that it is an out-and-up move from senior/lead/principle engineer or line manager to a director position. There would be one person between me and the CEO of the subsidiary business, and obviously relationship management is a huge part of any executive job, which I view this one as. I very much like your idea of building a seed fund, but that seems like something that would be outside my area of control. I wonder if proposing something like that might be a reasonable way of opening the conversation about defining the role that I would be playing. Again, thanks.