Am I Famous Now…

I was working on a post for the mini-bio, telling about how and when I left Belgium and what it changed for me, when a mail came in.

A quite important one. Main topic of last 10 days has mainly been the new company and how the team members (have) reacted on my announcement. The whole thing has been pretty important to me, but not because of the project being a dream I wanted to realize. No, more because the project emptied my lifetime savings. Or also a house has gone into it so far.

Last days, although we have always tried to continue and compromize as much as possible (yes those people have quit their very well paid job for this, so it was my task not to ditch everything from one moment to the other) and there certainly have been positive signs in the evolution. Nevertheless it turned into a grave yard battle. A grave yard fight with nerds.

I can only resume it like this:

Dearest nerds colleagues, I have ranted many times about your character on this blog. I still think you all are a pain but we managed to work very well together. May I advice you to get those Sterling Pound signs out of your eyes, maybe then you’ll realize that a huge project like this doesn’t depend on one person. We set up a roadmap, a roadmap with an external CEO even. I would only have been CTO. Besides, some of you have a better knowledge of the matter than I do. Actually you all six do. But I can sell, and don’t mind either to kick (your) asses.

As stated in the email you have in your inbox, I resign right at this moment from all my engagements towards you. Enjoy my house all the money I have pumped into this project so far. I don’t care about getting any back. Build the project up or let it die, not my problem anymore.
I am thinking of going back into bar/bistro/restaurant life because at least those people know what life is and can analyze.

What did happen? I am not interested in working with a bunch of high money earners who can’t come up with any own inspiration, initiative, motivation. Otherwise I’d worked for the government.

Oh btw, no worries about me, I’ll soon be rich again. :D