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Old 12-11-2006, 10:19 AM  
Dwreck
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20. To the best of our knowledge, you started in this industry with a company called "Content Guys". Explain who they were and how you came to work there.
That's not true. I spent 2 amazing years with a company called http://xamo.com before that. At the time we produced adult games for members area. Strip poker, ASS ROIDS, SEX INVADERS were some of our titles. haha It was a great product and I still believe in it. I learn t everything from the guys and owe them a huge thank you. So im sure they will never read this. But THANK YOU MIKE.


Mike owned Xamo.com and he used to show up at our martial art school for lessons.I taught him for a year or two. He showed up at the school in a brand new Mazda Maita one day. Not bad for a 21 year old kid in a middle class town I thought. So we got talking one day after I asked him how he could afford a new car he invited me to his *office* up the street.

I was floored! Pool table, leather couches, big screen tv's, oak desks, brand new computers and porn. What more could I want. It was geek porn heavon. I cant recall how it happened after that but soon I was getting my first taste of the adult industry selling adult games to members area that were dying to buy any piece of content we could come up with. Three months later I was at my first trade show in Las Vegas. There was no turning back for me at this point. I was hooked.

They are unsung hero's of my career that over the course of the past 5 years I have lost track of. I talk to Ron at itsyourporn still and he gives me updates. Ron worked together at Xamo for a year.

I was just checking out the site and I can see my pictures are still up after 4 years. I think they need update the site hahah on snap! My first Jenna pic is still up! Sweet I thought I lost it.



In true VH1 fashion it was too much to fast. We were kicking ass but we were sloppy. Things weren't being updated, payments missed, sleeping in was more and more common, missed meetings, forgetting calls. Mike panicked and came into the office and fired the whole staff the same day claiming him and his partner could do all the work. They were cool about it and said I got laid off so I could collect employment insurance which is 60% of your income. I was going to get paid for the next year doing nothing. HELLS YES!! I wasn't upset at all. It was like winning the lottery to me at that age and maturity.


I got picked up my www.contentguys and got the offer to work for them. The job required me to work from home. I HATED IT. I wanted to be out more, miss the comradely of my buddies, things are hard to do remotely. I wasn't challenged selling content anymore, I was locked up 8 hours and I wanted out.
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