Employees smoked marijuana for lunch and snorted cocaine for supper. They slept under their desks. We ate from the trough of the venture capitalist pigs. Pseudo had started as an online radio station in 1994 before expanding to video, featuring boutique channels of hip-hop, punk rock and counterculture programming. It was one of the first Silicon Alley darlings and perhaps better known in the early days for its Warholesque parties, which were often held in the loft of Pseudo's founder, Joshua Harris.
Nobody has a job.
Back in his school days, Mr. Fine was a misanthrope who wore a green Mohawk and drank 151-proof rum at the local amusement park. Italian or not, he still got beaten up and the girls made fun of him. He dropped out his junior year but earned his equivalency diploma. He went on to art school and came out thinking he was going to be a famous painter. But no one was hiring famous painters at the time and he settled for working in a bookstore and then as a receptionist at an audiovisual company.