Rally footage, talks, and short films going back to 2010 — kept because nobody else was recording it.
We left with $800, an old van, a gas card, and 2,000 t-shirts nobody would buy. We slept in the van every night, bathed in rivers, and ate the dollar meal twice a day, morning and evening. We never begged. Not one news agency covered any of it, so this is what we filmed ourselves.
The tour turned up the thing the Foundation had been arguing for all along — people who could not find work and built their own instead. Some of it was years ahead of what the rest of the country later called a trend.
When no outlet would cover the tour, the answer was not to complain about it — it was to build somewhere the story could live. On the road he also took his first job as a reporter, filing an undercover piece to a New Mexico weekly that traveled far past it. He was paid $50. That gap — between what reporting is worth and what the reporter gets — became Nujobi, and Newsweed.com after it.
The idea the Foundation was built around — a place where a working person with an idea could actually build it.
A two-part television appearance on Waffleocracy, a nonprofit program run by Dave English, filmed at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh.