Welcome to What Could Go Right?, where we’re thinking about ordering the first straight-to-VHS movie in 20 years. About thirty years ago, a small computer graphics studio in Richmond, California, was struggling. Financial losses had forced a sell-off of the company’s hardware division. More than half of its employees had been sacked. The owner, a tech entrepreneur busy with other projects, was trying to find a buyer even as the company locked down the biggest animation deal it had ever signed.