In one of his past lives, as a 24-year-old law school dropout turned Founder/CEO, Brian led the creation of eteamz—the world’s largest amateur sports site that currently (and profitably) provides team and league web sites and a comprehensive suite of services to over 3 million teams from over 120 countries around the world. (For example, Little League Baseball® uses the technology.) After spending the requisite time in “garage-mode,” eteamz won UCLA’s Business Plan competition, raised over $5 million of capital, grew from 3 to 45 employees in less than a year (including the CEO of Adidas and the eventual winner of Apprentice II) and was sold for over $13 million of stock and cash to The Active Network, Inc. in 2000.

After successfully leading the integration of the two companies as a Vice President at Active, Brian spent a few years as a philosopher, immersing himself in philosophy, psychology, mysticism and optimal living. He read hundreds of books and traveled a bit—studying Jesus in Jerusalem, Marcus Aurelius in the Danube of Hungary, Rumi in Konya, Turkey, and Socrates in Greece. (Check him out with his g/f Sophia at the library in Ephesus, Turkey! :) On his return, he created thinkArete.com, a site where he began distilling the universal truths of optimal living. Over 10,000 people signed up to receive his daily newsletter where he shared the wisdom of his favorite teachers, showing how everyone (from Nietzsche to Buddha to Emerson) is saying the same thing.

In 2004, in an effort to integrate his philosophical and entrepreneurial selves (yes, he’s a Gemini ☺) and to put the truths he was studying into practice, Brian created Zaadz (now Gaia)—a company named after the Dutch word for seed committed to leveraging world-class social networking tools to connect, inspire and empower people committed to transforming their lives and our planet. (Think: MySpace for people who want to change the world.)

As the Philosopher & CEO of Zaadz, he raised $3 million to finance the launch of the business. Investors included a billionaire and his family and the CEO of Whole Foods. Feeling the dharmic pull to immerse himself back into studying and living the universal truths, Brian sold Zaadz to Gaiam, Inc. (Nasdaq: GAIA) in the summer of 2007.

Before all of that, Brian graduated Magna Cum Laude with Phi Beta Kappa honors from UCLA where he studied Psychology and Business. Brian has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal and various other publications on everything from philosophy and business to his vision on how to change the world. He has presented on various panels, served as a judge for the Anderson School at UCLA's Business Plan writing competition, and given lectures on conscious capitalism, entrepreneurial finance and the Internet economy at USC's Marshall School of Business, Claremont McKenna and Cal Tech.

Brian's always been passionate about understanding what makes great people great and applying the truths they embodied to make his little dent in the universe. 

After selling his last business (Zaadz) and traveling for a bit, Brian decided to give himself a Ph.D. in Optimal Living with a Specialization in Greatness and Bliss. 

He figured he’d get a Master’s when he’d distilled 100 of his favorite books into concise, fun, inspiring summaries. Then, on a flight from Tokyo to LA, he had one of those “Aha!/hallelujah!!” moments when he opened the SkyMall to an ad for a company that summarized business books for “busy executives.” He decided someone should do summaries of self-development books for the “busy self-actualizer” and that that someone should be him. ☺

Enter: PhilosophersNotes. (Imagine CliffsNotes. Only shorter. And cooler. And a *lot* more inspiring. ☺)

He's currently on sabbatical in Bali working his way through a suitcase of books while he re-wires his consciousness, creates PhilosophersNotes #51-100 and teaches a Philosophy class at the local yoga studio.

He's 34.

 I like Devlyn

 Chief Philosopher of PhilosophersNotes.com. (I hart my job. :)

 Roonie my "guard" dog here in Bali.

 She was born with lame back legs and thinks nothin' of it. :)

 see above

 Nasi goreng with brown rice. Vegetarian. (I'm living on this these days! :)

 b/c

 Nietzsche, Rand, Maslow, Emerson and ... hmmmm... Jesus.

 why not?

 Right where I am.

 Not in my mouth/body. Me no likes pizza.

 Water.

 Green tea percraps.

 Give away 1 million free subscriptions to PhilosophersNotes by end of year, complete connection to source, and complete expression of my highest potentialities.

 um. i dunno.

 To be me.

 Uh....

 Aurelius from Gladiator. :)

 He's cool.