SvennoJ said:
LegitHyperbole said:
Dud ya grow that yourself or were you just in early? 4 to 1000 is pretty epic. And aye, I can't imagine what the beurocracy of these companies like Rockstar with 2000+ people and like you said the risk analysis and checking in with every department for problems, no one wants to be the fuck up who fucked up half the teams work. Sony seems to be able to run fairly large teams effectively though and Nintendo too, perhaps they've figured it out. |
I wish lol. I was in early, the 7th to join the company in the 90s (we did have more than one project!) and we later merged with Psion, Netherlands division. Harold Goddijn who was head of Psion in the Netherlands at the time, grew the company to where it is now (TomTom). Great boss, true visionary. His wife was part of the management of Palmtop Software before he took over.
It is quite an epic success story, glad to have been part of it :)
Also the bigger it gets, the more damaging any negative press will get. Early fuck ups went unnoticed, yet once big enough, every little problem is blown up out of proportion. Hence so much trepidation about any changes later on.
Early on we had to do a recall early on as the distributor had mixed up the CDs, Spanish music in the cases instead of our software. Nobody really noticed, heck the internet wasn't even properly up yet. Before that we were so small we did the distribution ourselves. We were mostly making software for Psion devices and at a release all came to the office to mass duplicate SD cards to put in the boxes to send out to stores. From mom and pop shop to mega firm. Quite a journey!
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Success story is right, that's proper impressive. You must have gotten a lot of experience and know how just being apart and so close to that, though, I'd reckon. Did they ever go public?
