Connect Who or what is your inspiration in business?

Bill Evans & Chad Kassem. Bill once said in an interview "All I have to do is take care of the music, even if I do so from a closet. Then eventually, someone will open the door of that closet and say 'We're looking for you'." Chad started Analogue Productions from nothing and prioritized quality and from it, he has now built a company known for its fidelity, opened a pressing plant, bought a mastering facility in a church, and even acquired the tools to make UHQR style records.

How do you stay motivated?

Exploring new music and collecting new records, hearing what they sound like and studying the runout grooves to determine how they are made and the differences between that record and the last one I bought, all to formulate a "Golden Plan" to manufacture my own.

What would you do with the $25,000?

I would pitch to reissue Bill Evans Trio - Waltz For Debby & Sunday at the Village Vanguard. A jazz classic like that has been pressed several times but never with complex color and, at the same time, high fidelity standards. A project like that would catapult my mission to connect audiophiles and new collectors into all genres and allow me to prove my abilities beyond a shadow of a doubt.