Towards the latter part of 2000, my friend Miguel Del Valle expressed an interest in my web site. I showed him some of the features, including the streaming audio and video clips that you may have seen as you surfed the site. Miguel suggested that this sort of product might be commercially viable. He insisted that he knew several organizations that would like to make their video presentations available via the web.

We hatched an idea for a web hosting service that specialized in streaming video. The result was Gulf Stream Media