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"T: What was your relationship with Syntrax?
Brock: Well, Derek Cornelius, who I refer to as the irreverent Cornholio now, was an officer in the military. When he left he started a company called Trigonal Industries that sold bulk kitty litter.
T: Cat litter?
Brock: Yep, cat litter. He decided to start another company called Mass Quantities with George Spellwin and Andy Bunner and they sold bulk andro powders. Basically they just got those little brown pharmacy bottles, packed 20 grams of powder in there and sold them for 100 bucks. They made a lot of money. They made $750,000 in the first nine months with no advertising selling these powders over the Internet. It was amazing. They were only like 22 or maybe 24 years old.
Derek was doing the bulk of the work. He was packing the orders, selling the orders, and all that stuff. Bunner was sort of their Web guru and Spellwin was supposed to be their marketing guy, but he didn't really do anything real that I can think of. I actually like George and his EliteFitness thing now.
Derek got really mad because George Spellwin was using company money to pay for a really expensive apartment for himself in New York and he was donating company money toward gay charities. That pissed Derek off. Basically, as Derek told it, they were pretty much screwing him and I urged him to break away and do it on his own. He resisted at first, but the last straw was when Andy Bunner showed up at the Mass Quantities warehouse in a new Ferrari.
I was exceptionally friendly with Derek at the time. I mean, I considered him to be a good friend of mine and I actively encouraged him to break away from the guys. If I didn't push him, I'm not sure Syntrax wouldn't even exist today as it is. Sure, he probably would have left eventually, but who knows? Andy and George decided to buy him out and he and I, to a certain degree, founded the basis for Syntrax.
The deal was I was going to move "
interesting
Brock: Well, Derek Cornelius, who I refer to as the irreverent Cornholio now, was an officer in the military. When he left he started a company called Trigonal Industries that sold bulk kitty litter.
T: Cat litter?
Brock: Yep, cat litter. He decided to start another company called Mass Quantities with George Spellwin and Andy Bunner and they sold bulk andro powders. Basically they just got those little brown pharmacy bottles, packed 20 grams of powder in there and sold them for 100 bucks. They made a lot of money. They made $750,000 in the first nine months with no advertising selling these powders over the Internet. It was amazing. They were only like 22 or maybe 24 years old.
Derek was doing the bulk of the work. He was packing the orders, selling the orders, and all that stuff. Bunner was sort of their Web guru and Spellwin was supposed to be their marketing guy, but he didn't really do anything real that I can think of. I actually like George and his EliteFitness thing now.
Derek got really mad because George Spellwin was using company money to pay for a really expensive apartment for himself in New York and he was donating company money toward gay charities. That pissed Derek off. Basically, as Derek told it, they were pretty much screwing him and I urged him to break away and do it on his own. He resisted at first, but the last straw was when Andy Bunner showed up at the Mass Quantities warehouse in a new Ferrari.
I was exceptionally friendly with Derek at the time. I mean, I considered him to be a good friend of mine and I actively encouraged him to break away from the guys. If I didn't push him, I'm not sure Syntrax wouldn't even exist today as it is. Sure, he probably would have left eventually, but who knows? Andy and George decided to buy him out and he and I, to a certain degree, founded the basis for Syntrax.
The deal was I was going to move "
interesting