I loved leading The Dad and The Dad Gaming. I am forever grateful I was in the right place and the right time and was able to bring together a talented group of creatives to make it happen. The honor of my life.

When we landed the Planters sponsorship for TDGL, we considered outsourcing event production and content. But that is crazy expensive and also it’s fun so I decided we’d learn how to do it ourselves. We ran tourneys with 100s or people. We found we needed to run it with fb groups, discord, twitch, YouTube, Instagram, email, and Google forms, among other tools, so we could get game interests, skill levels, stream links, lobby codes, and more. Yikes! I was stunned there wasn’t a platform optimized for video games and ALLTYPES of game interests, not just tourneys. And we had a huge fb group, but as you may know, it’s next to impossible to even reach your own people there, unless you PAY Facebook, who is MAKING MONEY off of YOU.

So when it was time to move on from The Dad, I decided to create the platform I wish existed back then. That is Channel 3.

And never one for half measures, I decided to be ambitious and make the goal to become THE social platform for video games. Not just TDG, but any community, any person who loves games. All types.

That remains the goal.

Channel 3 is not “funded” by investors like literally every other social network was in its early days; it’s all bootstrapped. Meaning I personally fund it. I personally code it and build it, with the help of talented and hardworking admins. Especially @rey and @dan. So it does progress more slowly than many would imagine.

But holy crap isn’t this so much fun?

That’s my story.

I’m happy to be here and I’m happy you are here too.