Such was my faith in Cam that I put to him a sublimely stupid proposition. “Cam, if we can agree 30-day service terms on all contractors can we record a fuck-off strings library, release it and earn enough cash off it to honour and right-off all of the costs in less than a month?”. He said yes without blinking. Not that I’ve seen him blink that often… it wastes time I presume. I would also have to preside over building a website, getting logos done, making sure we could take money and distribute samples in that same period. There were a lot of moving parts, and where you had lots of moving parts you ensured lots of fault points that could fuck everything up.
Yes we had enjoyed “day one” but this was just a team meet-and greet. The salary train had not yet left the station but the conductor was determinedly rummaging around in his pockets for his whistle could we make this work?
My plan was to gather a crack team of people I had worked with over the years and people they recommended to me who could deliver the impossible. Everyone needed to start on day one, at the same time as the sample sessions so everyone could then be paid in 30 days time.
There could be no delays. Whatever pitfalls fell our way would require old-school silicon valley in the 90s sleeping bags under desks until the job was done.
I had the help of my wife who became company director, Stephen Tallamy whom I’d set up Pianobook with (more about that later) and some insanely talented people who had enough faith to enter into something where being paid was totally reliant on all of us working as a team, even though many of us had never met.
All I had to do was get us some attention and I had a plan for that.