Beate Chelette

Absolutely.

Fire away, Nathan.

I'm so excited to be here.

Well, it's all about supply and demand.

So Bill Gates had been buying up a lot of stock licensing companies.

One of them was a flagship company by the name of Outline, which was all into celebrity stuff.

And I had figured out and how to sort of corner the market in the area of architecture and interior photography.

What I did not know when I started that is that as sort of a side product, we would be getting a lot of celebrity homes because

duh, the best architects work for celebrities and the best interior designers, duh, work for celebrities.

So next thing I have Madonna's house and I have Francis Ford Coppola, Simon Baker, Terry Hatcher, and a celebrity story after celebrity story.

And because my background is as a photo editor from Elle magazine in Germany, I knew exactly what to do.

And suddenly, you know, we became the industry leader licensing these celebrity stories into 76 countries.

And, uh,

the Bill Gates company, Corbis was trying to find new revenue streams.

And so they said, well, we want to add that to our celebrity licensing business.

And I said, you can't have it unless you buy it.

And then they said, we want it.

And I said, I'm not cheap.

And they said, we don't expect you to be.

And then they paid me a whole bunch of money for it.