BrettJ

a search will probably pull up the stories. Tim and I have told them a number of times. It was owned by Chris Ramirez and Sean Taylor. Chris was all over the place. Twisted and manipulative are good words to describe him. Sean was a good guy that got caught up with the wrong biz partner. I often wonder what happened to both of them.

The short version - I worked there until like June of 2000. While there I met Tim (the guy i founded DormAngels with). At the end of that year, with the help of some great employees had signficantly increased revenue and traffic. Bringing in over 200k in profit a month. The reason Tim and I left was they were getting involved in some stuff illegitimate stuff in Russia.

6 months after we had left I heard revenue had dropped 100k. Still plenty of profit. With in a year their monthly revenue was under 100k (supposedly) and they were bringing in like 20k in profit. The two owners had plenty of cash hidden under the mattress.

I got a call from one of their banks saying it had a negative balance and they were going to come after me for the 20k - because I was still a signer on the account and they couldn't find Chris - by that time he was in either panama or brazil, that was probably 2002.

About a year and half ago I heard they returned to the states - and were breeding dogs. But I don't really know.

For better or worse - they taught me a lot - through both positive and negative examples of how to run a business.

Chris had some great biz ideas that were almost always a year or two ahead of their time. It's too bad they pissed it away.