"Andrew was looking for a blogger and an actress," Congdon says. "I wasn't a blogger. But I was a writer, and that helped."
The venture began.
Segments were highly varied. In one episode late last month, Congdon pondered the famous Diet Coke/Mentos explosions, did a quick feature on Dubai, and advised people how to avoid laptop battery fires. Two days later, it was a more serious report on a poor Botswana village.
"They created something really new and exciting," Jarvis said. "Out of nothing came a show, a franchise, a medium."
This past March, money started coming in. Rocketboom held an eBay auction of its first ads. It sold one for US$40,000, and another for US$80,000.
But Congdon, who owns 49 percent of Rocketboom to Baron's 51 percent, wanted to move to Los Angeles. She says she had a long-standing agreement with Baron that she could work from the West Coast, but that he reneged. She also says Baron demanded she serve as merely the "face" of Rocketboom, ignoring her part ownership.
Baron, for his part, says the dispute is over a number of things, not just one. He said he had been supportive of her plan to get to Los Angeles, but could not meet her demands right away. He said she was refusing to collaborate with him further, and he's coming back on Monday with an interim host.
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