During COVID-19, Tristan Pollock and his family wrote Stay at Home, Dog!, a book that helps kids cope during a pandemic
Tristan Pollock has spent most of his life in technology. He created one of the best performing email marketing campaigns for BestBuy.com, the world's largest electronics retailer at the time, started and sold two startups, and has invested $30M into startups in Silicon Valley. But when COVID hit, he tried something new.
Tristan, his wife Danyelle Pollock, and his mom and dad decided to create a children's book to help families and their kids cope during COVID and 2020 called Stay at Home, Dog!
Tristan's mom, Julie, is also an elementary school special education paraprofessional who just so happens to be an illustrator who was top of her class at the most prestigious art school in Minnesota.
Tristan's dad, Rick, is an entrepreneur and graphic designer who helped educate the Twin Cities business community about 'The Internet' back in 1993.
Put the whole Pollock family together at home during a pandemic-scale lockdown and it created just the right amount of creative inspiration.
After being inspired by his Mom's drawing ability, Tristan sketched out the first draft of what a rhyme-based kid's book could look like. Tristan then took the idea to his Mom. She instantly took a liking to the project and started working in her spare time sketching out the draft ideas. As a dog-loving family, the character eventually turned into a dog called Mabel who helped kids understand COVID and pandemic-like situations, something most kids had never encountered before.