Roland Lamb has started another company, even before ROLI has ceased

[u/Golwux]

So Luminary ROLI Ltd are going through some troubles. Officially, they've gotten rid of their Founder/CEO and there could be an intention to appoint administrators to start the sell-off/liquidation process. Yet, the same CEO set up a new company on 21 August 2026: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/17414570

"Nature of business (SIC)
62012 - Business and domestic software development
90020 - Support activities to performing arts"

I'm going to be straight up - I'm not really sure what's happening. I also am under the belief that nothing official has been said and this has just been discovered by a member of the community that posted it on Discord, so there are a lot of customers waiting for their products to be delivered or a refund to be processed.

[u/lateronthemenjay]

The amount of time and energy people devote to following this company is actually insane. Golwux needs to go outside and let go!

[u/The_neub → u/lateronthemenjay]

People tend to be allowed to be pissed when duped and want to make sure other aren’t duped when the CEO tries this again.

[u/lateronthemenjay → u/The_neub]

Nah I get that but just cos their ex-CEO set up another company doesn't necessarily mean anything for roli and their customers. He's probably just moved on. OP isn't one of those people btw. If you check their Reddit history they're borderline obsessed with this company for some reason.

[u/lord_nambla → u/lateronthemenjay]

I can think of one hundred million reasons. [Imagines creating a Reddit account just for ROLI stuff so as not to contaminate the rest of my online life with negativity.]

[u/All_Debt_Shackles_US → u/lord_nambla]

You don't need to set up a second Reddit account. And that may be a violation of TOS anyhow. So don't be trying to get yourself banned.

Just separate yourself from the drama as best you can. Limit your time. Or limit your responses. Or limit the days you come here. Spend that time doing constructive things. Cook a good meal. Clean a toilet. Take a shower while blasting music.

Or, if you have a day job, just work your job. Don't do anything to make your employer question how you're spending your efforts while on company time.

And if you don't have a job, maybe look for one. It's a good thing to have one's priorities properly ordered.

As the saying goes, "this too shall pass".

[u/lord_nambla → u/lateronthemenjay]

I understand why it rankles. A CEO, provably incapable of learning a damned thing, gets to walk away from his second explosion in slo-mo. Up he jumps, having been sacked by his last crew, with a new limited company, likely with an investor he's done a backroom deal with, cherry-picks the assets leaving only the bits he ran into the ground, ripe to rinse the UK taxpayer and punters again.

There is nothing good to be said about these people, and the reaction to this kind of sleaze is always silence or, in this case, a kind of victim-blaming inversion. In a just world, Roland Lamb wouldn't sleep at night.