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Steve Sims

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
179 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
936 He Made $8m Last Year Getting Ordinary People On Stage with Bon Jovi

And then people started talking about this bluefish company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
936 He Made $8m Last Year Getting Ordinary People On Stage with Bon Jovi

And we're glad that they picked on that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
936 He Made $8m Last Year Getting Ordinary People On Stage with Bon Jovi

Otherwise, we could have been called Tinky Winky Poe.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
936 He Made $8m Last Year Getting Ordinary People On Stage with Bon Jovi

Okay, so that was early 90s.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
936 He Made $8m Last Year Getting Ordinary People On Stage with Bon Jovi

We started the first party, I think would have been around about 93, 94.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
936 He Made $8m Last Year Getting Ordinary People On Stage with Bon Jovi

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
936 He Made $8m Last Year Getting Ordinary People On Stage with Bon Jovi

We started to get contracts around 96, 97.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
936 He Made $8m Last Year Getting Ordinary People On Stage with Bon Jovi

We became, we had an offshore company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
936 He Made $8m Last Year Getting Ordinary People On Stage with Bon Jovi

We were living in Hong Kong at the time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
936 He Made $8m Last Year Getting Ordinary People On Stage with Bon Jovi

We had an offshore company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
936 He Made $8m Last Year Getting Ordinary People On Stage with Bon Jovi

Oh, me, my wife, and a couple of people that were with me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
936 He Made $8m Last Year Getting Ordinary People On Stage with Bon Jovi

We set up this offshore company when we were in, when it started to make money and we were getting a lot of international people coming in and we didn't want to be banking in Asia.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
936 He Made $8m Last Year Getting Ordinary People On Stage with Bon Jovi

It was still a little bit unstable.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
936 He Made $8m Last Year Getting Ordinary People On Stage with Bon Jovi

So we had the typical BVI offshore company account and that kind of thing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
936 He Made $8m Last Year Getting Ordinary People On Stage with Bon Jovi

And then we really got legitimate in, I would say, 99.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
936 He Made $8m Last Year Getting Ordinary People On Stage with Bon Jovi

And our first big contract, we worked for Ferrari in 96 and 97.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
936 He Made $8m Last Year Getting Ordinary People On Stage with Bon Jovi

But it was really kind of very loosey-goosey.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
936 He Made $8m Last Year Getting Ordinary People On Stage with Bon Jovi

Our first big thing was the official concierge of the New York Fashion Week, then the Kentucky Derby, and then in 2004, the Grammys.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
936 He Made $8m Last Year Getting Ordinary People On Stage with Bon Jovi

So in in 96, 97, I was working with Ferrari in Monaco.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
936 He Made $8m Last Year Getting Ordinary People On Stage with Bon Jovi

So I was meeting a lot of very powerful people, but also a benefit that I didn't realize at the time was I couldn't Google them because we didn't have Google in 97.