I am never going to get rich selling tshirts. I learned that when I tried to sell '
I've Got a Herd On' boxer shorts at
Marshall. That was never the goal anyway. When I created the
GEvil tshirt design, all I wanted to do was make something fun for the Yahoo Mail team, learn to use Photoshop and learn more about buying sponsored search. Fortunately, a few internet & technology blogebrities found the CafePress site and I ended up selling a few shirts. Yeah, beer money!!!
Then one day someone sent me a picture of
Sergey Brin with
Dave McClure of
SimplyHired, who of course, was wearing a GEvil tshirt. The picture immediately became my messenger display image and I showed it to anyone who would listen to me for more then 2 seconds.
Dave's picture started to make the rounds and he made my shirt kind of famous. It helped quite a bit that Google released some more evil between when I made the shirt and now (Google Desktop 2.0, the Chinese censorship, GDrive, etc.). Now, I understand that
Michael Arrington has ordered a shirt!
So I am stoked. I wouldn't exactly say that sales are going gangbusters. This isn't MGB part money or even golf money. I'd like to picture a world with more people wearing GEvil tshirts then wear white earphones but for now, I'll stick with beer money, which I can always use. I'd love to share some of my beer money with Dave. Thank you for making GEvil so popular.
