Brian Ouellette

Wanted to spend away.

I'd always grown up in Seattle.

Spent some time away, got back to Seattle.

Payne Weber brought me on.

I worked there and was a financial advisor for a decade.

In that time, we had the crash in 2000, so I ended up selling my book in 2004.

I lost my taste for the business a little bit in 2000, probably 2003-ish.

I'd been watching the internet going on, so I wanted to do something online.

I started a company in 2004, left the business completely, completely did a different industry, started a sports apparel company that I still run to this day.

That's an angel and private equity fund-invested company that's been running since 2004.

Um, 2010, I had a sports agent buddy of mine who was developed a database of sports agents.

And I was like, well, that's interesting.

I never thought about, uh, tapping in that market when I was a financial advisor, we're up here in Seattle and, you know, we had that first wave of Microsoft retirees.

So that was really the focus for financial advisors was I learned more.

Most of these athletes, you know, sports illustrated report about 60% of these athletes conservatively were going broke in retirement.

And I had no idea the number was so high.

So we began, I spent about three weeks at that point in 2010 researching the industry and realized, you know what, this is a great opportunity.

I'll partner up with Sport Ticket.

He's got the database.

I'll sell it to Financial Advisor.