Dick Dodge

Actually Richard Forthrast From REAMDE

History (of make money)

• raised in Iowa - no college?
• 1972 (age 18?) draft dodges to Canada
• carries bearskin over border, finds bootlegger cabin. Later (1977) buys it.
• gets kicked out of guide biz because of bearskin thing, becomes marijuana smuggler/guide
• buys Schloss on Canada side, turns into cat-ski lodge
• once it's sustaining, spends a decade (1996-2006) (age 42-52?) playing game
• has idea for game optimized for gold farmers including real-world money loop-closing
• later has idea for business product of crowd-sourcing boring tasks by mapping them to game battles

lessons

• small number of key "inflection points"
• some are opportunistic
• some are driven by a big brainstorm percolated over years of embedded/context
• boring part mostly avoided? "Can hire those people"