Nimitz Shand Interview Transcript

[Shand]

I'm not saying it's...I don't know...*visionary* thinking that got us here.  It's more just the combination of making things people want to use with the ability to deliver those things.

[Donahoe] 

But there's no denying that you're an aggressively commercial organisation.

[Shand]

We're an organisation with some aggressively commerical people in it!  Of course, we have to make money.  

Look, we want to deliver the shape to the people on a mother-freaking PLATE right here.  We want to serve that up, hot and roasted.

You know this, Jonny.  You got to use the shape and you're confronted with just the worst gateway you've ever seen - scrolling numbers and outlines and all that retroist garbage.

what we're saying is that you need to go for a frickin' *stroll*; you want to perambulate, you want to stride out into the shape and just be like, "I'm grabbing this data, I'm grabbing this information".  We're changing that right now - the shape is going to blend right into your life like a complementary *colour*.

[Donahoe]  

You're clearly very passionate.

[Shand]

That's what I live for, you know?  It's the train-set mentality: I can see all these pieces of track right there and I'm just plugging them in and turning up the power.

FRIEND is evolving, Charon's Palm is evolving: we're about to hit a huge hairy home run here.