I've taken the leap of faith to stop punching the company time clock and start working for myself. I'm now the CEO of Starfish Media Group, my production company, in New York City.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My job was to turn the company around and to give Time Warner a profitable Web business to spin off and a profitable access business that still throws off a tremendous amount of cash. I can check both of those boxes. I am done, and I feel good about what we've accomplished.
HartBeat Productions is a company established by me; it's mine. I run it. I have employees.
As CEO, I had a standing 30-minute meeting every Monday to greet and connect with new hires.
I got a job working at a publishing company, Balmur Music, which was a company that Anne Murray was a co-owner in, as a tape copy guy. Eventually, I got fired from that job.
I created a production company. Right now I am so happy in my work.
I had worked at Disney since they bought the company that I had worked for, ABC in the mid-90s.
I'm fortunate that I'm employed. And if you're in show business, of course, every night you go to bed and go, oh my god, tomorrow I'll never, ever work again.
My mission is to become part of Time Inc. and push the business forward.
I'm very involved with all the executives at Televisa.
Look - this is the terror of being a founder & CEO. It is all your fault. Every decision, every person you hire, every dumb thing you buy or do - ultimately, you're at the end.