id Software Gets Owned [Jan 06, 2004, 11:15 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
id Software sends along the announcement that a couple of their employees have
been granted entree into the company's small group of owners:
In further strengthening our management tem, id Software is proud to announce that Todd Hollenshead, CEO, and Tim Willits, lead designer, have been granted ownership shares in id Software, Inc. Todd and Tim join the long-standing ownership team of Adrian Carmack, John Carmack, and Kevin Cloud. Everyone at id would like to thank Todd and Tim for their years of dedication and congratulate them on their latest accomplishment.
Not really, it's actually pretty heavy news. Various ownership of the company means that they could change their direction altogether if they decided to. I doubt that Carmack and the others would have granted partial ownsership to the two guys if there was anything to worry about, but now the pie is split 5 ways instead of 3
This could definitely effect future projects at id. When it came time to do Doom3, John C., Steed, and someone else (can't remember who) were in favor of it, while others at id weren't (Steed wasn't an owner though). I could see this kind of tug of war happening again at some point...
But congrats to Todd and Tim - they've been there awhile, and I'm sure they've paid their dues...
NOW GET DOOM3 OUT THE F$%*ING DOOR!!!
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