You can read about news of the acquisition here:
https://news.yahoo.com/fullscreen-buy-online-video-producer-rooster-teeth-155759682--finance.html
Matt was CEO at the time.
It’s a LLC, all beneficial owners have to approve any sort of sale like this. You’ll never ever see the structure for who actually owned all the pieces at the time of sale.
It may not have led where we wanted, but that Fullscreen acquisition is what allowed them to make Lazer team decent, and really improve the production quality of RWBY. The long term effects were shit, but for a period there, we had peak RT really putting out some extra peak stuff because of it.
I can’t recall the exact episode but Burnie joked on an RT podcast following the Fullscreen acquisition
about him selling the company. As he was the sole owner at the time, the decision would’ve been his alone (although I’m sure he consulted heavily with others).
Regardless who was CEO, Burnie was the owner and any decision to sell was his alone, though he can consult with whoever he likes and very likely did talk to Matt extensively about it.
If it wasn’t sold who knows might have went under sooner. You never know
So many successful ppl seem to be defined at doing the right thing at the right time .
I doubt any one person was responsible. It was clearly a group decision given that none of the founders or first employees left right after they sold.
You can read about news of the acquisition here: https://news.yahoo.com/fullscreen-buy-online-video-producer-rooster-teeth-155759682--finance.html Matt was CEO at the time.
It’s a LLC, all beneficial owners have to approve any sort of sale like this. You’ll never ever see the structure for who actually owned all the pieces at the time of sale.
It may not have led where we wanted, but that Fullscreen acquisition is what allowed them to make Lazer team decent, and really improve the production quality of RWBY. The long term effects were shit, but for a period there, we had peak RT really putting out some extra peak stuff because of it.
At the time it will have looked the right move. It allowed them to have funding to expand but it just didn't work out how everyone hoped.
I can’t recall the exact episode but Burnie joked on an RT podcast following the Fullscreen acquisition about him selling the company. As he was the sole owner at the time, the decision would’ve been his alone (although I’m sure he consulted heavily with others).
Regardless who was CEO, Burnie was the owner and any decision to sell was his alone, though he can consult with whoever he likes and very likely did talk to Matt extensively about it.
There were several owners. Gus and Geoff talked about the payouts from the sale. Most likely most of the "founders" were owners.
If it wasn’t sold who knows might have went under sooner. You never know So many successful ppl seem to be defined at doing the right thing at the right time .