A long time ago, in a city far, far away
Well, it wasn't actually that long ago — picture it: Perth, Western Australia 2000. Three guys, three dreams, too much coffee.
Myles Eftos, David Petale and Andrew Baker are sitting over looking the city of Perth from Kings Park drinking luke-warm coffee from a thermos. These three boys who had been friends from school had always been a creative bunch, and it wasn't long before the nights brain-storming had come to a climax.
“I say we sell balloons”, says Andrew
“What are you talking about?!?”, asks Myles, looking at Andrew in his standard ‘What are you talking about?!?’ way.
“To make some extra cash. We can sell balloons.”, replies Andrew.
“Yeah! And we can write rude words on them!”, says David.
“Um, no — but how about we start a business? We could do creative stuff, and get paid for it!
The boys think this is a brilliant idea — coupled with their own individual talents, they could do something really great and fun! And this is how MadPilot was born*
Things have changed here at MadPilot since those early days, Dave is now an ABC reporter, Andrew a lawyer, Myles... actually Myles still runs MadPilot.
Myles Eftos
Myles is a UWA Computer Science graduate. He has been playing with (read: breaking) computers from a young age. Luckily, he wasn't too bad at fixing them either. He has a passion for programming and a love of design, so the web was an obvious choice for him — although sometimes he wishes he took up something simpler, like brain surgery.
He is currenly the membership officer for Port80. He can often be found at the Amplifier bar dancing like a spastic. He would like some sleep soon. Read his Blog.
* Note this isn't really how it happened, yes we were at Kings Park, yes there was coffee — no there was no talk of balloons.