Howdy,
I wanted to introduce myself. My name is Richard Bullwinkle, and while most of you will have no idea who I am, some of you will know exactly who I am. The most important thing for you to know is that I am here because Sonicblue has reversed a policy that prohibited employees from participating in online forums. Moving forward I will try to answer as many questions as I can.
I am also here because I have a wee bit of experience doing this. On that note, let me set some expectations:
1. Sonicblue has undergone great change as of late. The company priority moving forward is to build great products, and also build credibility in our dealings with customers, partners, shareholders, and creditors, maybe even competitors. I don’t mean to say that those weren’t important goals in the past at Sonicblue, but I wasn’t here then, and I only know that I wouldn’t have joined if it weren’t made clear that those would be the priorities.
2. I don’t lie. As far as I know, everything I tell you is accurate.
3. I speak for the company. If I say it is so, you may take it as gospel.
4. Some topics are off limits. I cannot talk about hacking the boxes, other than to warn against it. I will be advised by legal on certain topics that I should be careful what I say.
5. I’m also human. I don’t do the corporate drone very well, so I’ll let you in on my home life, my personal tastes, my experience with all sorts of stuff. I may offend you in the way I say things. I may say something in a way that I’ll need to correct later because it was not read the way I intended it. I won’t answer to personal attacks. I won’t respond to mob mentality. I won’t always say what you want to hear. Please don’t take differences you have with my personality against Sonicblue.
6. Finally, and least importantly, I’ve got history. I was TiVo’s Chief Evangelist for several years, and was an employee at TiVo very early. The fact is, I know the TiVo product better than I know Replay’s, so I won’t badmouth TiVo. Many friends still work there. I also won’t discuss the personal reasons why I left TiVo. I still have a great deal of love for the product and the people there.
So, thank you for having me. I look forward to many late nights on what I would call my side job. I have a real job here at Sonicblue… but that’s a different story. By the way, it is the holidays, and the month before CES, so my rampup may be slower than any of us would like.
Cheers,
-RB
I wanted to introduce myself. My name is Richard Bullwinkle, and while most of you will have no idea who I am, some of you will know exactly who I am. The most important thing for you to know is that I am here because Sonicblue has reversed a policy that prohibited employees from participating in online forums. Moving forward I will try to answer as many questions as I can.
I am also here because I have a wee bit of experience doing this. On that note, let me set some expectations:
1. Sonicblue has undergone great change as of late. The company priority moving forward is to build great products, and also build credibility in our dealings with customers, partners, shareholders, and creditors, maybe even competitors. I don’t mean to say that those weren’t important goals in the past at Sonicblue, but I wasn’t here then, and I only know that I wouldn’t have joined if it weren’t made clear that those would be the priorities.
2. I don’t lie. As far as I know, everything I tell you is accurate.
3. I speak for the company. If I say it is so, you may take it as gospel.
4. Some topics are off limits. I cannot talk about hacking the boxes, other than to warn against it. I will be advised by legal on certain topics that I should be careful what I say.
5. I’m also human. I don’t do the corporate drone very well, so I’ll let you in on my home life, my personal tastes, my experience with all sorts of stuff. I may offend you in the way I say things. I may say something in a way that I’ll need to correct later because it was not read the way I intended it. I won’t answer to personal attacks. I won’t respond to mob mentality. I won’t always say what you want to hear. Please don’t take differences you have with my personality against Sonicblue.
6. Finally, and least importantly, I’ve got history. I was TiVo’s Chief Evangelist for several years, and was an employee at TiVo very early. The fact is, I know the TiVo product better than I know Replay’s, so I won’t badmouth TiVo. Many friends still work there. I also won’t discuss the personal reasons why I left TiVo. I still have a great deal of love for the product and the people there.
So, thank you for having me. I look forward to many late nights on what I would call my side job. I have a real job here at Sonicblue… but that’s a different story. By the way, it is the holidays, and the month before CES, so my rampup may be slower than any of us would like.
Cheers,
-RB