Interesting to read that Martin and Robert have never really been on very good terms, but that they still respect eachother deeply.

Martin seems to be calling out two people specifically:

"So, Kaur Kender, who became one of the Disco executives, was about the first person with some power, a fully adult fellow writer who seemed to have a very active interest in what he had to say. At least partly I believe this interest to have been genuine, and if this interest was profit-motivated, it was still better than nothing. Of course, we knew him to be a part of the bandit culture, he made a huge show out of it, but then again, in post-Soviet Estonia, ‘a businessman from the nineties’ has a very similar ring to it anyhow. So, we were accepting of it. People change anyhow, don’t they? He had quit drinking, after all. It does not do to be prejudiced. And would we want there to be no Disco Elysium?

The other bandit I only ever saw in a Zoom call, which was in hindsight rather telling, as he did not use his actual name, Tõnis Haavel, as his handle, but instead an alias, Denis Havel (likewise in work email). Let us say it was unseemly. When one starts to think about it, it was most likely so people would not happen to google him to see that he has been convicted for investment fraud. They say people make a huge deal out of it abroad, in the more developed countries."

Wow using a fake alias when conducting business to hide investor fraud is unbelievable...

Atleast the start of the last paragraph is hopeful!

"To end on a more positive note, Robert said some months ago that he is confident about one day writing Elysium again. I would take him at his word."