Good day, Internet.

It's Friday December 6th, Limerhoes Drops' Acne, here with another interview episode.

As you know, last month I attended Paradox Interactives PDXCon 2019 in Berlin at Paradox's

invitation and at their expense for travel and lodging. This is the last of the conversations

I had there, with longtime Paradox Interactive Executive, Sham's Rijani.

Sham's were all his grown alongside Paradox's publishing portfolio. When I first met him,

most of what Paradox sold was their own strategy games from their in-house studio, the studio

we now call Paradox Development Studio.

Sham's was responsible for publishing deals for external studios, and in those early days,

Sham's sometimes felt like a carnival barker for the least impressive side shows at the

Paradox circus. He dealt with disastrous launches, deals turned sour, and experiments

gone wrong. Yet, Sham's also someone with a gift for seeming very genuine and straightforward,

honest when it comes to his own mistakes, and able to accept harsh criticism.

When Fred said he was stepping to the side, he said, you're going to step out of the

B management team. How about coming in and then she's going to build a new management team?

My ego took a little beating, but when Abba started, I told her, I've been here for

eight years. The company's been very good to me. I've become wealthy, very happy. Most

other things I have in life, I can know, oh, to Paradox. You tell me what you need.

If you think I'm done here, Paradox, I'll step to the side and somebody who can take

on the challenges we need to, can take them on.

I said this, maybe 60% of it, but I said it, and then over time I started believing

the additional 40%. I knew Abba a little bit before she started, but not terribly well.

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