How it started
In 2016, I was just a dad coaching my kids in Ultimate Frisbee.
One year later, my life changed forever.
While playing in a competitive basketball game, an opposing player lowered his shoulder into my chest. My heart stopped. I flatlined. It took CPR and multiple shocks to bring me back.
Most people do not survive that.
Those who do often face lifelong challenges. I survived, but the trauma left me with severe short term memory loss. For nearly two years, I could not retain new information. I lost one of my most successful businesses, and with it the future I had worked hard to build.
I felt discouraged, depressed, and unsure of what I could ever do again. But I kept coaching.
As our team improved and began traveling the country, I noticed a problem that kept showing up everywhere we played.
Families could not follow their teams.
Yes, Facebook Live and YouTube existed. But the quality was terrible. No scoreboards. No zoom. No professionalism. Parents missed moments. Players had no highlights. Schools had no way to showcase their programs.
I knew there had to be a better way.
In 2019, while visiting family in North Carolina, we stopped at the Wright Brothers Museum. The building was nearly empty. Just one employee and my family.
As I read through the exhibits, I came across a quote that stopped me in my tracks. It was a reminder that the world is often wrong about what is possible especially right before something changes everything. Wilbur Wright said,
Not within a thousand years would man ever fly.
That quote hit me hard because I was hearing similar messages in my own life. That I would never fully recover. And then, almost as if someone was standing beside me, I heard a question in my mind:
What would happen if you quit?
That moment changed everything.
For the first time in years, I set a goal. Not just to stay alive, but to create something meaningful. Something that could help people.
I decided to file a patent. Something I had never done before, and something that felt nearly impossible given my condition. That year, against all odds, I filed two.
One became the foundation for the technology behind Apollo Streams.
From that point on, I poured everything I had into Apollo Streams.
Over the next five years, I obsessed over solving problems no one else had cracked.
- Apple engineers told me when asked if this was even possible, "We do not know. That has never been done before."
- Broadcast professionals told me what I was building was impossible.
- Billion dollar companies had tried and failed.
So I kept going.
Eventually, Apollo Streams became something real. A platform that brings professional level broadcasting to anyone with an iPhone or iPad and a vision.
Division 1 universities started buying the gear. Major broadcasting companies took notice. And I got to coach and live stream my son's team winning an Ultimate Frisbee National Championship.
His name was Apollo. The name felt perfect.
- Built to rise
- Built to inspire
- Built to reach farther than anyone thought possible
That is how Apollo Streams was born.
What started as a way to stay connected to my family has become a platform built to empower families, schools, and broadcasters everywhere.
And the rest of this story? That's up to you to help write.
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