Brad Parscale started his digital career in bookstores, tapping people on the shoulder while they were browsing the web design section and pitching them his own website creation services.
Then one day in 2011, he was eating an omelette when he received an email from the Trump Organization asking him to pitch for a web design project for one of Donald Trump’s real estate projects. Other assignments followed until 2015, when another email arrived.
“It said: ‘Donald Trump is thinking about running for president and we need a website in two days,'” Parscale told CBS News’ “60 Minutes,” which aired Sunday.
“So I wrote back and said, ‘Yeah, I’ll do it for $1,500,'” he added. “And by the end (of the election campaign) it was $94 million.”