About rBods

Since both Cat and I have backgrounds of owning our own small businesses, and I had earned an executive MBA, we naturally considered building rBods as a normal for-profit company. Our vision of a motivational social network requires lots of capital that we simply do not have, so we started attending Venture Capital conferences in search of partners to get started. We loved watching entrepreneurs giving pitches to these venture capitalists, a truly exciting experience! Unfortunately, the extreme emphasis on profits didn’t fit our plan for creating a social network with a primary focus on creating common good… a healthier, happier society with less debt. We didn’t want rBod’s future dictated by profits over social good. So then we looked at the non-profit model. That didn’t fit either. As a businessman I just couldn’t see myself asking for donations every year to sustain a business that I knew was capable of carrying itself within a few years.

I searched for business models that successfully contained both elements of a for-profit and a non-profit to no avail. This dilemma dominated our thoughts as 2008 rolled around, which turned out to be the toughest year of our lives! I broke a couple of ribs on January 3rd by falling on some concrete steps while

We have been working on this dream for over 12 years now. It has developed slowly as technology has changed and we have moved around the globe.  We have been living on the islands of Guam and then St. John,VI for the majority of that time so everything accomplished has been in incremental steps.  We have had lots of ups and downs that have thrown us off course but Cat and I have always held one constant in our lives - our passion for exercise, eating well and taking care of our bodies!

Obviously Cat and I are getting some help now. T;) A few of the people helping are:

Robert L. Hart, my son, an alumnus of Chico State's Mechanical Engineering College is developing the first prototypes of our exercising mannequins. We will have