Mark Rober

It was like an entrepreneurial thing because my first video ever was a Halloween costume where an iPad on front, an iPad in back of me.

You like cut a hole in the shirt.

And it looks like you have a hole in your body if you do a FaceTime call because the FaceTime camera pointing forward will record the hand and it shows it on the back.

And it went really viral.

That was my first ever video.

And I was like, dang, I have more ideas than this.

So I basically done one video a month since then.

But part of that where people like cool idea, bro, but I don't have $1,200 for Halloween costume.

So the next year I was like, oh, we just had a design on the shirt.

Let's say it was like some guy's scary guy looking eye.

And then I made a free app that had an eyeball that I filmed that was moving around.

If you cut a hole in the shirt, duct tape your phone to the back of the shirt, it looks like this like animated T-shirt that looked wild.

And that was pretty successful.

So I did that like nights and weekends, grinding, made this free app, made the t-shirts.

And it went well enough that like a year later, I sold the whole thing to these guys in the UK who make morph suits, Halloween costumes.

And then I worked for them for two years.

And so that was like, it was more of like an entrepreneurial opportunity.

And people were like, how could you leave NASA for that?

But like...

It was, you know, it's one of those things that in the moment it made a lot of sense.