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As previously mentioned, I have worked for a couple very well known businesses in the film distribution industry: Netflix and Redbox.

Before either of those however, I worked so many different jobs I can't even begin to list them all. The one common thread however, was that I was always creating my own business, always trying to develop something new and innovative, something I could be proud of. 


For example, most people don't know this, but I used to own a business called: Wild West Productions, where I designed, created and sold silk cowboy shirts. Yes, I'm being serious. 


It wasn't until the early eighties that I became involved in the movie rental industry. At that was mostly because I had always loved movies and was tired of spening so much money renting them, so I created my own chain of local video rental stores in Marin County called, Video Droid. And for a long time, that is what I poured myself into, working long hours behind the front desk, learning more and more about the business and what consumers wanted; which naturally led me to want to learn more. 


That's when I first became involved with Netflix, though at that time it didn't have a name, nor was it focused on renting DVD's over the internet. After Netflix went public and I had felt like I had gotten everything I could out of that job, I moved on to Redbox. 


Renting movies through a kiosk machine had been something I'd wanted to do since Video Droid (thus the name - a "droid" that dispensed movies), but it was a little bit more complicated back in the early eighties. But I don't give up on an idea that I believe in, so after almost two decades, I was finally able to revisit and execute the idea successfully. 


I stayed at Redbox for a while, and then, as always I moved on once I felt like I had accomplished all that I could. 


By then, I'd been working practically my whole life, and after leaving Redbox, I needed a vacation. My wife and I went on a four month adventure around Asia. It was AMAZING - to say the least - and neither of us really wanted to come home, but we missed our children, so home we went.


After a four months of traveling and not working, I was excited to delve back into new business ventures, which is what led me to Quarterly Co.

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