Brett Bowden I think, yeah. I live by the mantra: "Work Hard, Play Hard", so fun is very important. Marshall Atkinson Right, it is. All right. So I think you're around and you're everywhere. But, some people might not have heard about you. I know it's unbelievable, right? Not that I might not have heard about you or Printed Threads. So, can you kind of share your origin story and let everyone knowmore about your company and maybe who your target customers are? Brett Bowden Yeah, absolutely. So, I graduated high school around 2000. At that time I was playing music with friends and we were always having shirts made to sell, ‘cause that's the way bands make money. And at some point, I decided I wanted to learn how to print shirts myself. So around 2000, I bought a press, I started printing shirts, and printed lots of shirts and started selling them into big retail stores and all kinds of cool stuff like that. But the band I was in was going on tour all the time and we just couldn't -- I couldn't run the business and print shirts and do both at the same time. So I sold all of my stuff to a good friend of mine and he has gone on to do way bigger things like work for the biggest company in the world. And, he's still doing retail merchandising stuff. And when I went to college, I went to the University of Colorado, and there I met my lovely wife and we had a baby and, I graduated from college, and decided to go to get certified to be a teacher. So I wanted to be a teacher. And, when I graduated from college, it was about 2009, which was not a great time for our country. And most schools were on hiring freezes. So I couldn't get a job. I'd worked through college as a cable guy, which is a really rewarding experience. And I've got a lot of great fun stories from being a cable guy and the people that have attacked me and whatnot. That was something that certainly helped me out in my path to success, I suppose, but I was just kind of miserable, and my wife and I had decided to move back to Texas, just for the cost of living. The goal was for her to not have to work as much so she could raise our family. And along the way, I was just kind of miserable on the ol' cable guy experience. And I went to her and said, “Hey, I used to print shirts, and maybe we could do it again and make a little bit of extra money just doing it out of our garage.” That was April of 2010. And by October 2010, we were in a warehouse space and growing every year. About the year 2015, I signed up to do one of those Inc. magazines -- the fastest-growing companies deal to see where we would place. And we placed at number 826 because, in four years, we had grown to be a multi-million dollar print shop.
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