February 1, 1992
Saw La double vie de Veronique with Tomi. She said: “It just proves that if you’re a good-looking French girl, you can get away with just about anything.”
Yesterday was my last day at Broderbund. I said goodbye to everyone. It’s actually not such a bad thing, taking off for months at a time: They spend so much time saying “If only Jordan were here!” they’re starting to idealize me in my absence.
The artists all want to please me… it’s like I’m their dad. I don’t know how that happened, but it’s great. I guess that makes Brian the mom?
Rob Martyn showed me Living Books. It’s awesome. If Disney had any sense they’d do a deal with Broderbund. A Living Book of The Little Mermaid would sell fifty trillion copies. Disney doesn’t see it – they’re years behind the times and don’t know it. Rob called Disney “the China of educational software” – the sleeping giant.
Dinner with Rob and Tomi at Jennie Low’s. It occurred to me that the three of us, sitting at that table, were ideally qualified to go off and start a multimedia software company. With Living Books, the Sensei product line, and Prince of Persia to our names, we should have no problem raising a couple million bucks startup money.
Tomi, for one, would love to do it. Rob I think would be reluctant to take the risk. Me, I have other plans… although what they are, I have no idea.
