Chapter 51

Three years later I was sitting in a business meeting, for the first time in many years. It had taken quite a lot of work to get to this point but I was a whole lot more prepared this time, than I had been years ago. Again, it was my company and I had people working for me. For instance, I had an elderly gentleman playing the role of our CEO. Hey, we would be working against producers who were familiar working with actors and actresses. Besides, I wanted to see if the opponent had done their homework. As to what was I selling? Simply the most 'state-of-the-art' digital special effects. Anything you could imagine could be produced, only much cheaper and faster than what it would be otherwise. Natural-looking textures, effects and even skin. All of this was patented and ready to run.

OK, someone with much greater resources would probably top us within two years, but not now. That is why we were here, now. The company we started the negotiations with was probably not the one we would be working with, but we had to start somewhere. I had done MY homework.

A bit later, it didn't look much better for them. They made us wait in a lousy lobby for half an hour without any explanation, and once we started the only word to correctly describe our counterpart would be slimy. Before we started he reserved our supposed to be CEO and started telling us about himself and his experiences with Hollywood stars. I mostly ignored him but suddenly I started listening.