DVD Jon reports that he is joining up with a curious Bay Area outfit (or, for all we know, perhaps he IS the outfit) named DoubleTwist Ventures, an organization that explains its charter as focusing on:
the development of interoperability solutions for digital media and the reverse engineering of proprietary systems for which licensing options are non-existent or impractical.
Sounds suspiciously similar to what we multimedia hackers do purely for our leisure-time programming. Live the dream, Jon. Get paid for what you love to do!
All I know about the company is what the front page of the website reports, which is a text blurb pasted on a picture — very 1996. Seems out of place in this day and age. The mailto: link has a bad email address, too (though it may be a counter-spam measure and the text in the picture looks valid).
DoubleTwist Ventures is started by Monique Farantzos, who is working with DVD Jon. Monique was (perhaps still is) in Bioinformatics marketing, and DoubleTwist Ventures is an amusing play on a now-defunct venture-funded Bioinformatics company called DoubleTwist.com (originally Pangea Systems.)
Full disclosure: I worked at DoubleTwist right after they raised their first round of VC funding from Kleiner-Perkins but left when they repositioned the company as a dot-com and hired a bunch of BCG consultants who quickly put the company out of business…
Hey Sunil,
Sounds interesting.. can u tell me how i can contact this DVD jon?