 Due to the workload from the venture, Lepa decided to quit his day job.By 2004, he had converted the website, pearlsonly.com, that he started for his business to a company with eight employees and $1.2 million in sales.Lepa's solo venture has resulted in about 100,000 customers and $10 million in sales by 2011 and 250,000 customers and $30 million in sales to date.