By Steve Hendershot
(Crain's) -- Trep Life, an Internet video series about entrepreneurs, will announce this week an exclusive partnership with Inc.com. The New York-based publication will promote and house Trep Life's content, splitting profits 50-50 with the show's two Chicago-based creators, Scotty Cadenhead, 22, and Malachi Leopold, 32. Mr. Leopold also runs a Chicago video-production company, Left Brain/Right Brain Productions.
Trep Life's first season (which has been featured here on Crain's blog for Chicago entrepreneurs) spotlights Chicago entrepreneurs such as GrubHub's Matt Maloney and Mike Evans, and Flashpoint Academy's Howard Tullman. In subsequent seasons (there are five planned in all), Messrs. Cadenhead and Leopold will hit the road: The second season will feature East Coast entrepreneurs, the third will take place in Silicon Valley, and the Trep Life team plans to film overseas in seasons four and five.
Messrs. Cadenhead and Leopold, as well as Inc.com Editor Eric Schurenberg, tell Silicon City more about the partnership, and about Trep Life's plans.
Read the entire Q&A on Crain's blog for Chicago entrepreneurs.
