Jonathan Bailor '05 Talks Up His Entrepreneurial Venture on Seattle Radio Program

November 15, 2007

November 15, 2007, Greencastle, Ind. - Jonathan Bailor, a 2005 DePauw University graduate and CEO of CameraRenter.com, discussed his growing business -- "the environmentally elegant alternative to disposable cameras" -- today on Seattle's KKNW radio. Bailor was a guest on the station's Chat with Women program.

Bailor's business caters to special events, and is described as a hybrid of Netflix, YouTube and Flickr. CameraRenter sends a set of easy-to-use Polaroid digital photo/video cameras to customers in a pre-paid mailing case. The cameras are then passed out to guests at a special event, then are returned to the company, which creates a personalized Web site where the pictures and videos are displayed for easy viewing, downloading, sharing, and print ordering. A disc containing all of the images is also sent to the customer's home.

"You get what you give," Bailor -- an economics major at DePauw and member of the Management Fellows and Information Technology Associates programs -- told radio listeners. "You're at a wedding, nothing about that wedding is disposable -- the plates aren't disposable, the forks aren't disposable -- the cameras shouldn't be disposable. When you have disposable cameras, you get disposable photos."

Access audio of the interview by clicking here and visit CameraRenter.com.

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