Gustavo Serafini has built a dream business around work he loves. He is co-founder of Pure Audio Video, a reseller of high-end home theater equipment based in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. The movie buff and his co-founder and brother Marcelo create elaborate home entertainment experiences for people who love technologies, movies and music. Serafini doubles as host of the Enabled Disabled Podcast, which aims to shift the narrative around disability and empower people through practical advice and stories.
Pure Audio Video, founded in 2005, has grown to about $2 million in annual sales, and currently has nine employees, putting the duo in the small cohort of entrepreneurs whose small businesses reach $1 million in annual revenue or more.
Serafini has built his business while living with a disability. He was born with proximal femoral focal deficiency (PFFD), a rare, non-hereditary condition which results in a shortening of the femur, for…