Meet Rick DeVos - Amway Heir?

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Spout.com aims to shatter the movie industry’s traditional economic model by enabling filmmakers to find audiences for their work much more quickly and cheaply than they can today.

The four twentysomething founders of Spout — a new Web site, DVD retailer and online community of film lovers rolled into one — defy the brain-drain assumption that Michigan is losing all its creative and technology-savvy young people to cooler cities and states.

“We made a very conscious decision to locate Spout here,” Rick DeVos, Spout’s president and chief executive, said during an interview at the firm’s funky, 3,300-square-foot office in downtown Grand Rapids. “We’re confident there are smart people here, and there’s a sense of stability and grounding that allows us to focus.”

DeVos, 24, the oldest of four children of Republican gubernatorial candidate Dick DeVos and his wife, Betsy, comes by his entrepreneurial instincts naturally. Grandfather Rich DeVos was cofounder of Amway Corp. (now Alticor), and Grandfather Ed Prince, Betsy’s father, founded Prince Automotive, a Holland-based auto-components maker that Johnson Controls Inc. acquired in 1996.