Planet Bouncy - bouncing to success right from the start
Sergei Sychev was born in Moscow, Russia and immigrated to the US in 1979. After high school in Orange County, he moved to Los Angeles to attend UCLA. Out of college, Sergei entered the corporate world as a stockbroker and followed this with a series of other suit-and-tie jobs that committed him to a 9-5 work week.
A business born of bruises (literally and otherwise)
Sergei started Planet Bouncy in 2008, right in the thick of the Great Recession.
He was working for a consulting firm that, like other businesses, was going through a tough transition. Eventually everybody, including Sergei, got laid off with a short severance package.
Before this, ...
