Business World |
February 2015
138
When Larry Allhands witnessed the de-
struction of his prized Blu-ray DVD collec-
tion at the hands of his toddler son in 2011,
it spurred him to search for a digitized media
service to prevent such an event from hap-
pening again.
“I started investigating the market to see
what was out there, but there was nothing
that met our needs, so I decided to just build
one myself,” he says. “As a technologist, I
built one from scratch and ended up show-
ing it to my now partner, Dave Putman − he
and I both serve as US Army Signal Warrant
Officers for the Texas National Guard − and
he was blown away.”
“He wanted to start selling it immediately,
but I was reluctant because it was just a hob-
by of mine. We decided to take it to a law-
