¿Quién somos?

My name is Bryce Maddock. I am in the proces of starting a new business with Jaspar Weir, my long time partner in all things entrepreneurial. I met Jaspar in high school, a time when I was much much cooler than he was. But as Jaspar would put it I peaked at age 16. Anyhow, as my social status fell, Jaspar's seemed only to increase and by the end of high school we were about on equal footing. A shared desire to travel through Europe after graduation brought us together for a 6 week journey through, England, France, Italy, Spain and of course, Holland. On that trip we became very close friends.

At the end of the summer I went off to New York to go to NYU and Jaspar headed to downtown LA to go to 28th street in between Hoover and Figueroa, but we remained good friends. Over winter break of our freshmen year in college I proposed a business to Jaspar. Why not open up night clubs to high school kids? We had both had our fair share of nightlife experience in our first semesters, but neither of us really had the opportunity to go to a club in high school. Why not? We began work on what became Club Access - a series of Monday night parties held during the summer, open exclusively to the under 21 crowd. For three summers in a row we ran LA's hottest all age event, in addition to throwing special events (New Year's, etc.) for the 21+ crowd.

I graduated from NYU with a degree in international relations in three years. With most of my friends still in school I decided I wanted to stay in New York. So I got a job at Rodman & Renshaw, a boutique investment bank. The job was challenging, and exciting (for a while.) But anyone familiar with finance knows that there are only so many pitchbooks, cold calls, and 14 hour days in a windowless room, one can stand before looking into other possibilities.

In truth I never really wanted to be an investment banker. I always wanted to be an entrepreneur. So this past winter, while I was home for my first week vacation in a year, and Jaspar was on winter break we began to toss around ideas. This time Jaspar had the idea that grabbed both of our attention. It involved a life in a country where neither of us fluently spoke the language, a country to which I had never been, and a great risk with the potential of an even greater reward...

Thus began our Argentine adventure.

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