As I've said earlier, I'm starting a new business. Get on with it! It's taking too long!
But, one wonderful thing about starting a business, especially when you have a bit of money to spend, is that you can, if you are wise, call on the greatest talents you've met to assist you. Over the last 10 years in Australia, I have met some extraordinarily talented people.
One of them is Andy Grace.
Years ago, Spider Eye was fortunate enough to have produced and engineered the largest webcasts in Australia. We had 18,000 people on chat at the Mushroom 25th concert in 1998. We did fantastic programming, with good filler content, and some of the best music content in the world. All produced here, in Australia. We went on to do the Big Day Out, a truly amazing event, for 3 years in a row. Much was learned.
But, out of all of it, I met Andy. Andy did a great show on Fox FM called "Net at Night". Where everybody else was just figuring out the Internet, Andy had a show that had live webcams, ICQ chat-to-live, and assumed his audience was smart, not dumb. His callers were grateful, and Andy had a show that entertained and amazed, and was filled with the enthusiasm about the world to come, and how technology would change it. This was mainstream radio meeting the Internet long before anybody knew how much of a clash was to come.
Because of my new business, I've got a chance to work with Andy again. Thank you! Working with bright, talented people is amazing stuff. It's not easy. I have been in business with many friends. I'm lucky enough to be able to juggle such relationships. It takes caution and care to make sure that you never lose a friend, and never do anything but the best for the business. But, it can be done. And it's worth it. And most of all, because you're surrounded by talent, it gives you confidence. You know you'll succeed.
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