About Me

Who is this guy with yet another Internet busines blog? Well you might try Brian Despain's Linkedin profile. I with William Drury, (and later Mark Marriott) founded a company called Brave New Worlds in 1996. It was relatively early in the days of the web but ecommerce was already two years old with the launch of Hot Hot Hot - a hot sauce store in 1994. Presence Information Design was closing. Presence was one of the very first big web design shops on the West Coast and they had difficulty managing growth. William Drury and I approached many of Presence's former customers. I had just finished the ecommerce site CDPlus while working for Penny Lane Records. So William Drury and I took the plunge, founded Brave New Worlds. Four years and a lot of growth later we sold the company to VA Linux Systems.