Can you tell us about Welcome Beyond, the vacation rental company that you and your brother founded, and how that came about about?
Chris Laugsch: We were both fed up with our jobs and had wanted been wanting to do something together, like setting up a company for many years. “It’s just something we felt really passionate about, something we liked.” So we quit our jobs and began thinking about what we wanted to do. My brother has an architecture and design background and that’s always been an interest for him. So putting travel and architecture and all those things together, eventually, Welcome Beyond kind of evolved out of it. It wasn’t really like, “Well, what can we do that no one else had done yet,” because there are other companies that do similar things. It’s just something we felt really passionate about, something we liked.
