Ashin Varanin
Professional Enabler
So, I've played the company game for quite a while. With some others, built Silk Holdings and Akure Executive Interstellar up from literally nothing to tier 6 corporations. Had a LOT of fun along the way.
But it's kind of boring at the top after a while (a long while). I've been doing divestment for a bit, and I need to find some folks who're interested and capable. Because I want to start at ground zero again, in a whole new field, and see what happens.
SILK HOLDINGS: Tier 6
Ownership: 51% Smitty (not terribly active on the board these days), 5% Arceneau, 5% Ovmar, 29% publicly traded shares, 10% in trust for Mara Merrill, age 9. I play a member of the board of directors. Now, on paper, I could just walk away, have my char leave the board of directors for whatever reason, stop subbing tech under Silk's name, and be done. There are two interlinked problems: #1, Silk is more closely associated with me than anyone else active, and #2, I'm the one who answers the Marketplace queries. I don't want to just shut down the Marketplace thread. What I want to do is hand it over to someone who'd be happy playing executive without, you know, majority ownership. Everyone wants to own majority everything, so that's a hard sell.
AKURE EXECUTIVE INTERSTELLAR: Tier 6
Ownership: 90% employee-owned, with company bylaw stipulating that nobody can control more than 5% of the company. 10% owned by Jonathon Patches, a silent interest. I play the temporary interim CEO. As above, I could just walk away, except it's 'my' company OOC, and won't stop being that until I find someone else interested in running a Tier 6 without getting grabby about majority ownership. And then there's the Marketplace thread issue: I won't be free to leave Silk and AEI until someone else is there to, you know, answer the Marketplace threads and make a little tech every now and again.
Compounding factors: AEI is a member of the Tion Hegemony, and Silk has ties to it as well. Something to take into consideration.
So, my ideal outcome here: I stop playing a member of Silk's board of directors and AEI's interim CEO. Someone else takes over the OOC operations and plays some kind of executive (ideally, one writer for Silk and one for AEI). I walk away and start something new, after over a year running both of'em.
Any takers?
But it's kind of boring at the top after a while (a long while). I've been doing divestment for a bit, and I need to find some folks who're interested and capable. Because I want to start at ground zero again, in a whole new field, and see what happens.
SILK HOLDINGS: Tier 6
Ownership: 51% Smitty (not terribly active on the board these days), 5% Arceneau, 5% Ovmar, 29% publicly traded shares, 10% in trust for Mara Merrill, age 9. I play a member of the board of directors. Now, on paper, I could just walk away, have my char leave the board of directors for whatever reason, stop subbing tech under Silk's name, and be done. There are two interlinked problems: #1, Silk is more closely associated with me than anyone else active, and #2, I'm the one who answers the Marketplace queries. I don't want to just shut down the Marketplace thread. What I want to do is hand it over to someone who'd be happy playing executive without, you know, majority ownership. Everyone wants to own majority everything, so that's a hard sell.
AKURE EXECUTIVE INTERSTELLAR: Tier 6
Ownership: 90% employee-owned, with company bylaw stipulating that nobody can control more than 5% of the company. 10% owned by Jonathon Patches, a silent interest. I play the temporary interim CEO. As above, I could just walk away, except it's 'my' company OOC, and won't stop being that until I find someone else interested in running a Tier 6 without getting grabby about majority ownership. And then there's the Marketplace thread issue: I won't be free to leave Silk and AEI until someone else is there to, you know, answer the Marketplace threads and make a little tech every now and again.
Compounding factors: AEI is a member of the Tion Hegemony, and Silk has ties to it as well. Something to take into consideration.
So, my ideal outcome here: I stop playing a member of Silk's board of directors and AEI's interim CEO. Someone else takes over the OOC operations and plays some kind of executive (ideally, one writer for Silk and one for AEI). I walk away and start something new, after over a year running both of'em.
Any takers?
