Just returning to those early days as I think about it;
It was always a bit of a battle keeping HJ behind the Backroom, he sometimes saw it as a bunch of work for no revenue. Long discussions about traffic and search engines happened often.
But his determination to have a website which would make him money was admirable. Advertising deals, road tests, various databases, the link to the Telegraph and his books. The data he used to collect about everything.
Bearing in mind that the Internet was a bit of a waste of space in those days. HJ.co.uk and the Backroom was right at the beginning of Internet Forums and Commercially run websites. A lot of things obvious to us now, or even done differently now, were being made up as we/he went along.
I was impressed by him and his drive. For sure he could be difficult, but I guess those two things come in tandem.
He is older than me so I guess he must be knocking on now - 70, perhaps. Perhaps this is part of his exit, it is a limited company. It wasn't set up right at the beginning, it was done when things started going well and a few other things changed. But it's probably 15 good years old now.
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