First meeting comments

Hi Mark,
I am a 68-year-old single Veteran surviving solely on Social Security, I was surprised to receive this invitation. I believe I have been doing my Friday-Night Essence as a sports writer. I did it for 7 years, was out of the field by circumstances for about 10 years, and returned to the field 16 years ago. It never really felt as a job to me, though I did lose my job in June 2012. However, in Jan. 2013 I began working with a new media outlet, C&C Worldwide, whose goal is to return local ownership of media to local communities. The vision is to have 1,000 affiliate across the country, with each affiliate being locally owned and providing local content. We believe C&C can become to the new media what CNN was to cable in the 80s and 90s. I believe this new network will create value to the community and C&C’s advertisers by becoming an economic engine for that community. I am providing the sports content now as my payoff will be when the 2 affiliates I own become fully operational and successful, I can sell them, which should generate about $3 million for me. What also attracted me to Neothink was being able to win consistently at games of chance, to secure my finances, pay off my debts, and build some financial assets. I went through bankruptcy in 2001 and basically have been surviving, at first paycheck to paycheck then social security check to ss check, ever since. Several years ago my CEO got $2 million financing and created a 42 station radio network over 11 states. However 2 years later the “golden rule” kicked in, which is he who controls the gold makes the rules. His investor took over the network and left him $750,000 in debt. That is why he is boot-strapping this operation and not going for an investor, nor will he ever take it public, where the same thing could happen like it did to Steve Jobs. If I could hit a major lottery win, I would finance our platforms so we would have at least one fully operational platform, which then serve as the model for others to see what is possible with the media platforms, and to purchase an affiliate for their community. I believe having 1,000 affiliates, locally owned media outlets as part of the C&C Worldwide network, would offset the corporate owned and controlled media of today quite successfully.
This is where I am as I start this journey.