Army and the Department of Defense directly. In 2005, he left the military to work for Hillwood Development, a real estate company owned by Ross Perot developing master planned communities in Dallas/Fort Worth. Ustream Ustream was born when the founders (John Ham, Brad Hunstable, and Dr. Gyula Feher) wanted a way for their friends in the Army, who were deployed overseas in Iraq during the war, to be able to communicate with their families back home. A product like Ustream would provide them with a way to talk to all of their relatives at once when free time in the war zone was limited. Previously, these three had worked together on an internet based event photo sharing website using technology created by Dr. Feher. In 2003, both Brad and John Ham were deployed to active duty, putting an end to this venture. After returning to civilian life, Brad and John discussed the idea of the general public using the Internet to share live video. Seeing this as a viable product, they contacted their former partner, Dr. Feher, to develop the technology required. Ustream.tv was founded in 2006, as experiments in broadcasting Brad's brother Nathan's band (Venture) proved successful. Early testing involved Brad in the audience with a camera wired to a laptop (with a cellular card) in his backpack, sending the stream back to their test server. Launching their public beta in March 2007, Ustream.tv was the first of a series of live video sites include Justin.tv and Operator11.com. The company has seen "growth" in the political, entertainment, and technology fields. Ustream.tv have hosted streamings from politicians Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John Edwards and artists Tori Amos and the Plain White T's. The technology community has also adopted Ustream to include Robert Scoble, Leo Laporte, Chris Pirillo, Scott Liberto and Cali Lewis. Ustream.tv has raised over $60 million in funding, most recently from Softbank. Personal life Hunstable is married to April Hunstable and they have three children together. He has two siblings, Nathan Hunstable and Ashlee Smith. Hunstable's son, Hayden, died from suicide on April 17, 2020. The Hunstables started the non-profit, Hayden's Corner, to promote parents starting conversations with their children to help prevent childhood suicide, the #3 cause of death in 10-14 year olds. References American computer businesspeople United States Military Academy alumni People from Tarrant County, Texas 1978 births Living people People from Granbury, Texas Ohio