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Jessey White-Cinis and Thomas Brodahl
(Short Version)

Jessey White-Cinis: Stolen is a company it was impossible. So, yeah, we’re very
founded by the two of us. Our relation- dependent on the Internet.
ship started as long distance. He was
We had [bleep] come out. The rep actu-
working in London doing comps. It was
ally suggested that we get DSL and cable
really just a matter of time difference.
both put in, because their service wasn’t
The communication was there. It was
reliable enough.
very easy to hop on Instant Messenger.
Thomas Brodahl: If our ISP would offer
I think business is done a lot differently
us guaranteed service, I think we would
Thomas Brodahl: I use the web for … these days. Using the Internet, we’re able
definitely pay for it.
[bleep] to keep our costs low, we’re able to work
with freelancers anywhere in the world. It’s definitely like immediate gratifica-
Are we going to bleep? We should bleep. We’ve never advertised and we’ve never tion. I think the nature of the web and
Jessey White-Cinis: Hi. My name’s looked for work. what you do on the web has completely
Jessey White-Cinis. I’m the Director of changed in the last five years. The whole
Thomas Brodahl: We’re very fortunate
Function for Stolen, Inc. multimedia kind of revolution online has
to be in an industry where we can make
gone from being a text-based medium to
Thomas Brodahl: And I’m Thomas Bro- lots of money and do something that we
being a multimedia medium.
dahl and I’m the Director of Form. really enjoy and love, but at the same
time the reason we’re doing this is to be Jessey White-Cinis: As more and more
Our computers are big, brushed-steel artistic. people get broadband connectivity in
boxes of joy. their houses, now we live in a time when
Right now we’re shooting a commercial
I always wanted to be on the forefront of it’s hard to live without it.
for MTV Europe, which we’re shooting
technology. in the States, and we have to send it to Thomas Brodahl: We’re working with
Jessey White-Cinis: But we do not have Europe. And if we had a hundred tons people who make like 5-megabyte
home telephones. We use mobile. of bandwidth, we could just upload it websites and don’t even care. They’re
like that in like a couple minutes and be like, “Ah, people will wait for it, you know,
Thomas Brodahl: Mine has an mp3 play- done, whereas now we are contemplat- and it won’t take that long, because it’s
er on it and a flashlight and radio, and I ing how the hell we’re going to get it over broadband” and so forth. And it definitely
check my e-mail, and I can go online. My there, whether we have to FedEx it or, has changed equipment.
phone can do everything. you know, set a dedicated computer for
Jessey White-Cinis: In 10 years this
Jessey White-Cinis: We’re usually online a night or two nights to upload the whole
sound clip is going to be very outdated,
from the time that we wake up in the thing and pray that the thing doesn’t time
saying …
morning until the time we go to sleep. out or get corrupted in the meantime.
And then we make websites. We make Thomas Brodahl: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Jessey White-Cinis: I think a minimal
the Internet, or the web. amount of bandwidth that we prob- Jessey White-Cinis: … loading time.
We make the Internet what it is. ably require on a daily basis is at least a
Thomas Brodahl: “You’re doing 5 megs!
T1.5 up and down. When we don’t have
Thomas Brodahl: Yes. Every site’s 3 gigs now.” The future,
Internet connectivity or our cell phone
whoosh, what will they think of next?
network is gone, I think we’re pretty
That’s what I say.
much completely out of business. We
had about a week when we had no Inter- Jessey White-Cinis: Once they put that
net connectivity, and we were running Internet on computers, it’s going to be
around from friend’s office to friend’s huge. Quote me on that.
office trying to get work done, and it just,

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