JOE PALKO

Net Worth: $5 million.

Joe Palko, is the General Manager and Co-Founder, Solid Cactus Joe Palko is one of the leading experts in eCommerce today. Along with Scott Sanfilippo he started and grew a home-based eCommerce business, TheFerretStore.com, into a multi-brand, multi-million dollar company of pet websites. He help small companies get larger, and we help large companies stay ahead of their competition. Some of our clients include Lance Armstrong, Kennedy Space Center, Adidas and many others.
He is Co-founder of Neeps, Inc – a pet supply distribution company.

We were one of the very first online retailers, starting our online company with www.ferretstore.com.
Beginning with one employee and working out of a closet, to a 20,000-square-foot distribution center and 250,000 customers at the ferret supply business, to the Web design business of Solid Cactus, the two entrepreneurs have succeeded through trig and error.

In 2001, Solid Cactus was created by spinning off The Ferret Store’s print and Web departments.
Solid Cactus has grown to 75 employees with over 3,500 clients, and has designed 3,000 Web sites. “In five years, hopefully we’ll all be the same people,

” Palko says adding. “I want to make Solid Cactus better, to keep it growing without over-growing; to make sure we continue to get great people who look after our clients.

” The success of that company led to the co-founding Solid Cactus. Joe’s years of business management experience and eCommerce knowledge helped Solid Cactus flourish into a the leading web development and Internet marketing firm it is today.