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>try not to depend exclusively on a single creative vision? I guess if you have an unmatched creative genius like Douglas Adams in your team, that might be the
by hoers 12y ago
>try not to depend exclusively on a single creative vision?
I guess if you have an unmatched creative genius like Douglas Adams in your team, that might be the only real option. Especially since a lot of creative geniuses seem to have problems cooperating with other creative geniuses (at least in my experience).
But I generally agree. Just look at Apple.
- ohitsdom 12y agoIt must be scary having a company so dependent on one creative mind. But how would Apple look today if they tried not to depend on Jobs so much? My guess- much smaller, much less significant.
- jessaustin 12y agoApple seem to be doing just fine without Jobs: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2015/01/27Apple-Reports-Record-First-Quarter-Results.html http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2015/01/27Apple-Reports-Reco...
- maskedinvader 12y agoI think he meant had he not returned after leaving apple the first time.
- Agustus 12y agoNow it is, but look back at Apple's share prices in 2000 and what Apple was when Steve Jobs came in. It was a struggling company trying to figure out whom to please, their offering of computers is what HP is now: a multitude of options that does could do anything for everyone. Steve Jobs' personality and drive created Apple and then saved it by having the executive power to focus the brand away from the various iterations of computers to get to one idea: Beautiful products that people want.
- thorin 12y agoApple have their golden goose now, they just have to flog it. Like Microsoft did. Maybe they will continue to make new breakthroughs with the massive cash reserves they had, but it's hard to imagine they could top what they've already done.
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- Technomad 12y agoWe weren't: Douglas was a seriously important catalyst for the company, but so much of the work we did (some of which carries on now) was the result of the coming together of a fabulously talented and deeply eccentric team of people who complemented, contradicted and inspired each other. We had some bad luck along the way (and created a deal of it ourselves) but the final asteroid was the fact that we were weeks away from a major investment round with an NY investment bank when the dotcom market imploded - to oversimplify a very long story, they then walked away and landed us with the bill for their lawyers and their gold-plated private jets. What goes arounds, comes around: they went down spectacularly in 2008, to general rejoicing.
- yoz 12y ago+100 It was great having Douglas around for ideas and contributions: he did many things for Starship Titanic beyond the core ideas, such as designing puzzles and even composing bits of the score. However, as anyone who ever worked with him knew, relying on Douglas to deliver serious amounts of creative work on a schedule was A Bad Idea. (I ended up writing the introduction page for his own site: http://www.douglasadams.com/introduction.html http://www.douglasadams.com/introduction.html ) But TDV was made up of some of the most interesting, creative, and downright fun people I've ever worked with. It was a bumpy ride through the first dotcom bubble, but such a fantastic thing to be a part of.