We Started A Video Production Company With Less Than $5,000

I’m Dave Emge and I run a video production company called Soul Arch Media on the Gold Coast of Australia. We film and edit content for events, corporate, and TV, so there’s lots of diversity – every day is a different location set, filming different people.

What started 15 years ago as a small production company operated by a husband-wife team has grown into one of the region’s largest and longest-running media houses servicing hundreds of the country’s biggest brands and events, and filming content that reaches 10,000 million viewers worldwide.

What's your backstory and how did you get into entrepreneurship?

I was born in Texas but grew up in San Diego. A love of surfing drew me toward a career in surf videography, and I created a surf TV show for public television. While it wasn’t lucrative financially it did lead me to land a job with Poor Specimen, who at the time was at the forefront of surf films. I traveled the globe for them for 7- 8 years, filming the sport’s elite in some of the remotest islands and surf breaks. I met my wife while filming in Australia, and after traveling together for a couple of years we decided to settle down in her hometown on the Gold Coast.