Recently PaeDae hired one of the most qualified engineers I have had the good fortune to work with. The most interesting thing is that he is completely self taught. He taught himself Perl at age 14 in El Salvador. Previously I have hired non-computer science degree engineers, but never a person without a college degree. I believe that a bachelors [...]

Cracked the Code for Remote Workers?
My newest venture PaeDae brought on a graphic designer to work on some elements of our new game this week. I’m a product obsessed CEO, so I need to work very closely with our designer to craft our user interface. We also use a highly iterative process that requires extremely fast feedback, similar to the [...]

PaeDae
I have officially started work on my latest venture PaeDae. PaeDae is a patent pending platform, set to change everything you thought you knew about online games. Sign up here for an advanced preview. Tweet

Bali – Ubud
Ubud was impossibly lush and beautiful. We had a wonderful time driving ourselves around the countryside and living in a tropical rainforest. Almost anything a family needed was in the forest behind their house. I think our favorite part was the cooking class. Check out the photos below. Tweet

Bali – Kuta
Kuta is a terrible tourist trap, but a beautiful setting. The streets are filled with touts and other hawkers and actually difficult to even walk down. Bali is far more crowded with people than I imagined. We stayed in the urban center in Denpasar this night and left for a smaller beach town the next [...]

LA to Bali
This was an absolutely exhausting plane ride. We did get to do the upper deck of the new Airbus A380 on Singapore Airlines, which was the quietest plane ride I have ever had and the best airline service I have ever had, but it was still a 30+ hour trip which took alot out of us. [...]

Bali Bound
So on the heels of selling two of my companies (BULX & FastFireplaces) I just finished my cross country move to California. Before we get settled down, Kara and I are going on a 5 week trip to Bali to celebrate, reflect and get ready for the next chapter of our lives. I will still [...]
FastFireplaces.com Acquired
I am happy to write that Boundaryless Brands has sold FastFireplaces.com FastFireplaces.com was conceived as the ‘Zappos’ of the $5B hearth industry. It was founded in 2009 and acquired in August 2011. Tweet
About Rob Emrich
Rob Emrich is a serial entrepreneur, currently the Co-Founder & CEO of PaeDae.
He has founded and served as chief executive of a number of startups and social ventures including Road of Life (distributed $70M+ curriculum), BULX (acquired by DealYard.com 2011), Boundaryless Brands (acquired 2011) and SpeakerSite.
Rob has spoke about his work at Startup Weekend, The Ohio State University, Kenyon College, The John Glenn School of Public Affairs and others.
He is a mentor at the startup accelerator Founders Factory, and sits on a number of nonprofit boards.
Rob and his work have been featured on NPR, Inc.com, PBS, American City Business Journals, and many blogs.
He lives in Santa Monica with his fiancé, the fashion stylist Kara Kaufman.
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“By the bootstraps”
May 5, 2011
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Get Hip with Teacher Talk
May 19, 2011
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Big Sur in March
March 17, 2011
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SpeakerSite to Demo at IT Martini 17
May 20, 2011
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SpeakerSite is Hiring: Inside Sales
July 18, 2011
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Are College Degrees Necessary for Start-Ups? Free Course Bonus!
February 22, 2012
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Cracked the Code for Remote Workers?
February 16, 2012
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PaeDae
January 13, 2012
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Bali – Uluwatu
November 17, 2011
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Lombok – Gili Air
October 17, 2011







