A little background

So who are we anyway?

I'm Andrea Thornton (age 25), and Dave Wall (age 22) is my business partner. We currently live in Salt Lake City, Utah. We are both young, adventurous and spontaneous. We knew early on the office life wasn't for us. We're both crazy enough to decide to create a mobile office that will allow us to travel the country on a perma-road trip. Our friends think we are weird. My roommate even refers to it as the "giant ice cream truck." So maybe we are a little weird. At least we aren't boring. And at least we aren't wasting away the best years of our lives in a cubicle answering to a boss.

So what do we do?

It was a family vacation in Belize that first made me realize that the internet was the way to go. We were on a tour bus driving through a little village. Amongst the tin shacks and run down houses was an internet cafe. It was that moment that I realized I didn't need to sit in a stuffy cubicle to be productive. I could be at an internet cafe in a tropical village. I could be on the beach. I could be anywhere.

I started out in web design and then learned the in's and out's of e-commerce and internet marketing. Now we build internet companies ranging in everything from women's golf equipment to collectible cookie jars. And the best part is: We are portable. And the truck is just the beginning. Why stop there? How about a house boat office? Or a flying office?

How'd we come up with this crazy idea anyway?

Back in the very Early days of Archetype Development we came across a 1976 Bluebird school bus for sale on Craigslist.org for $500. We really had no practically use for this 90 passenger monstrosity, but really, who could pass up something like this? We got to work cleaning it out and prepping it for conversion into to ultimate snowboarding roadtrip mobile party bus. The problem was, it was too big to park anywhere even remotely near us so working on it became sort of a back-burner project and most of our free-time was dedicated to building up Archetype Development.

It was Dave who came up with the idea to turn it into a mobile office. It would take a lot of work and money, so we decided maybe it would be better to start on a smaller, more usable vehicle. Something newer than '76 seemed like a smart idea too. The bus sat for a year while we figured out what to do with it. It was just too big to ever be practical so we ended up selling it and put the money towards finding something better.