Rick Stratton

Founder / President

Rick has started three companies: ePrairie/Epigraph/Guitar.com (1998), 1871 Media (2001) and now Feed.Us. 

Rick has a B.A. in History from Connecticut College and a background in art & design.

He has built and designed websites and web publishing applications with Outboard Marine, Guitar.com/Musician.com, and 1871 Media. Rick began his web career with NBC in 1995 on NBC's first foray into web video called NBC Desktop Video.

Rick was born in and lives in Milwaukee (yes, Milwaukee!). 

Contact Rick: rick@feed.us

Links:
RickStratton.com
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John Welborn

Founder & Chief Metal Officer

John Welborn is an alumni of the prestigious University of Illinois Computer Science department and has been surrounded by computers since 4.77mhz and two 5 1/4" floppy drives were state of the art and laptops weighed 28lbs.

John spent three years at Intel in the Enterprise Operations division managing thousands of servers and developing support applications. In 1999, John lead the developers of the Musician.com network (Musician.com, Guitar.com, and gBase.com) eventually becoming CTO.

Guitar.com and Musician.com paved the way to web 2.0 with discussion boards and chat combined with celebrity video lessons and the web's greatest musician finder. He and his team pioneered the creation / implementation of some of the Web's first caching systems and have written and designed dozens of web applications.

He deftly handles vocal and rhythm guitar duties in the progressive metal band Empyrean Sky while living outside Chicago with his wife, son and dogs.

Contact John: john@feed.us