Scott Wilker, the founder and CEO of Sonic Blocks, has been a very close friend of mine for almost 20 years. Our beginnings go back to the early days of the DVD format when AIX Media Group was among the first DVD authoring and compression houses. Scott worked for Sonopress, a Bertelsmann company involved in replicating optical discs…including DVDs. We were introduced at a DVD conference and have done business and remained friends ever since.<\/p>\n
It was a call from Scott in late 2007 that ultimately gave me a taste of megabuck, start up, mania in the formation of Yoostar, a New York-based game company. I won’t go into the gory details but this was the first “corporate” V.P. position I ever held…while still maintaining my teaching and label responsibilities. I was there at the founding of the company and rode it through to the bitter end when one day, after Scott had long since departed the company, the NY head of human resources came to California for “discussions”. She had me fire my entire production team in the morning before turning to me with a severance package after lunch. So it goes.<\/p>\n