Founder and owner of the e-commerce gift store Vat19 notable for its unique, novelty products. For marketing, a YouTube channel was created to help sell the merchandise, a channel that has earned an astounding 4.7 million subscribers.
He founded Vat19 in 2002 after graduating from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science.
The video on the Vat19 YouTube channel selling "The Original Kinetic Sand by Brookstone" approached 100 million views in 4 years. Other popular videos include Vat19 items such as the World's Largest Gummy Worm and Magnetic Thinking Putty.
He hails from St. Louis, Missouri. He is a father.
He has featured challenges done by Rhett McLaughlin and Charles Lincoln Neal III from Rhett and Link on his channel.
