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We 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 comi

We 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.