Just Start is built on a lifetime of taking action
It's about why “just start” works. Drew, the founder, is an entrepreneur and investor who's spent a lifetime proving the biggest moves rarely need more information. The philosophy is baked in the statistical reality of doing more quickly, yields more results.
companies founded, operated, and exited (incl. Red Giant)
investments in small and growing businesses
states traveled by RV in a single year
Drew founded, operated, and exited four companies, including Red Giant, and has backed more than 50 others, many acquired, several failed. He's been featured in Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, and Entrepreneur, wrote the foreword to a book on sales, once moved his family across the country in 30 days, and later across the world to Tokyo. Every one of those was a “just start.” The résumé was never the point. Starting was.
None of this is the point of Just Start. It's just the paper trail, proof the idea works before you ever hear it from him.
Articles & interviews
- InfluenciveOn building a solid company culture at Red Giant.Read
- EntrepreneurFeatured on bootstrapping a vision into reality.Read
- ForbesMeet the visual-effects company Red Giant.Read
- The Wall Street JournalFeatured in the WSJ.Read
- RedShark NewsView from the top: founder and CEO of Red Giant.Read
- Sales Is Not Rocket ScienceWrote the foreword to the book.See
Companies founded
Formless Beauty
2021
Cosmetics company
Fort Wayne FC
2020
Professional soccer team
Bochi Investments
2019
Private-equity investments
Red Giant
Sold 20202002
Industry-leading special-effects software
Moment Park
Sold 20192012
iPhone apps
LifeFlix
Sold 20192012
Video-tape capture software
Toolfarm
Sold 20141999
Online digital-media retail
Private investments
- BuuteeqAcquired by Booking.com
- ZehitomoJapan's "Home Advisor" for organizing contractors
- CeregoPersonalized memory-management tech startup
- Fort Wayne FCProfessional soccer team in Fort Wayne, Indiana
- Heads Up HealthHealth-data dashboard
- Bochi InvestmentsPartner in the investment group
- Formless BeautyCosmetics company