Brian Howard

I kind of approached him with this crazy idea of, hey, let's go build a mobile development company.

And this is before the apps were actually launched.

So we were in very, very early.

And surprisingly, he's like, all right, well, let's do it.

This was 2008.

Oh, wow.

Our first app released two weeks after the apps were open.

So we were then very, very early days.

It was actually, our first app was not a game.

It was a...

So there was these devices that you could put in your car and you would be able to measure like your zero to 60 or quarter mile time, right?

Using the accelerometer.

And these things were four or $500 pretty expensive.

So when the first iPhone was announced and I heard that actually had an accelerometer and I had this idea of like, Hey, why don't we go build an app that does that?

Um, probably something on the order of 90 to a hundred K. Fucking beautiful.

yeah, just with a fairly short amount of time.

It was great.

I mean, it was a lot of fun.

And then, uh, I actually ran into a guy who sort of became my, my second hand.

He, uh, he was, well, wait, what happened to dad?