It’s time to crack out the champagne and celebrate! Gainlight has officially entered its third year of business while putting the roller coaster year number two behind us!

The path we have been fortunate enough to travel has all the makings of the cliche struggles of any entrepreneur. You know…close calls with money, growing to fast, not growing fast enough, eating ramen entirely too much (or in our case, chicken and pasta), monumental successes, monumental failures, happy clients, angry clients, a few timely arguments and a whole heck of a lot of lessons. Lots and lots of lessons.

Yet here we are.

We’ve seen our creative business find a home outside our home. We’ve moved from our first office outside our home, to a new, breathtaking space in the Warehouse District in Peoria. We’ve taken a 2AM brainstorming session about selling apparel on Bradley’s campus to 5 campuses through the state of Illinois, hiring over 15 campus reps as interns in the process that keep us humble and motivated daily.

This is all a journey, folks. A roller coaster we’ve elected stay on for over 2 years now. All the sleepless nights, all the ‘Oh Sh*t’ moments later…like sadistic madmen, we are looking forward to many, many more.

To our clients, our employees, our vendors our family, and all of our friends, we can not tell you how incredible fortunate we have been to have each and every one of you in our lives to help us along this path. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts!

Here’s to a huge year three!

Derek and Matt