I have to respectfully disagree with both PJ and Aaron in terms of Palumbo. Dave is a great businessman as he and Romano were doing things with internet media long before anyone else.
If it wasn't for Dave, there would be a lot of people who wouldn't have been as successful or well known....especially you and Aaron and even myself when I was laid off from Altel back in 2007.
Regardless of what disagreements I or anyone else has with Dave....he did a lot of good things for people overall and you have to give him his due and proper.
I agree with the fact that he helped Aaron and I becoming known. Especially Aaron. That said, you judge a businessman on his level of success with the opportunities he's developed or been given. That, and his level of acumen, in which he carries out his business affairs. If we can agree that those are the criteria that we are using to judge, then Dave isn't even remotely "great". I'm not going to tear the guy up GB style, only use Species as an example. How do you think it's doing? We visit many stores, deal with all the distributors, and speak to many decision makers in the supplement business, and the consensus is not good. The stores that have it can't sell it, and distributors like Lone Star rank it among it's least sold brands.
Dave used to brag to Aaron that he's never taken a paycheck from Species after 7 years in business. I know Aaron used to consider that very admirable. Now that we own companies we know that's ridiculous. Who owns a company to NOT make money, then brags about it. Lol.
On a positive note, he is an idea guy, a lot like Aaron. The difference is he doesn't monazite his ideas.