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About MArty
Brickey grew up moving across the country because of his father’s job. That constant change shaped how he thinks. “You learn to adjust quickly,” he says. “You also learn how to read situations and people.”
As a teenager, he spent time in Colorado. He developed a love for the mountains and skiing. That sense of curiosity and movement stayed with him. “It made me comfortable with change,” he adds. “That helped later in business.”
Brickey went on to study management at Missouri State University. There, he built a foundation in business, but he did not wait long to apply it. “I wasn’t interested in doing things the standard way,” he says. “I wanted to build something.” That mindset led him to launch his first major company soon after.
In 2002, Brickey founded Layne Morgan Media. At the time, most educational material was text-heavy and formal. He saw a gap. “We asked a simple question,” he says. “Why not make learning more engaging?”. The company focused on educational graphic novels. This approach combined storytelling with learning. It was not widely used at the time, especially in formal education. The idea worked. Layne Morgan Media went on to produce educational graphic novel content for The McGraw-Hill Companies. “It showed that people learn better when they’re interested,” Brickey explains. “That was the whole point.”