Dave was born May 6, 1968 and grew up in Lynnfield, a suburb north of Boston Massachusetts. He went to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and graduated with a BA in Economics in 1990. He then lived with a Japanese family for one year in Tokyo where he taught English and became conversationally fluent by hanging out at bars with Japanese buddies almost every night. After Japan, Dave lived in NYC for one year and then moved back to Boston and worked for his father for 2 years.

In 1994, four days after seeing the world wide web for the first time, Dave told his father that he would take a leave of absence to figure out how to make money on the web. He started an internet mall selling books, t-shirts, watches, and more. But after several months, Dave realized that in order to survive, he needed to pick one product niche and focus. His best store regarding traffic, sales, and profits was sextoys; consequently, Dave said to himself, “looks like I need to become the king of sextoys.“ In 1996, his company CNV.com Inc. created the first affiliate program for adult products. Shortly after that he was one of the first to offer wholesale and dropship for adult products on the internet. Although the domain “SEXTOY.com“ gets most of the media attention, Sextoy Dave’s company makes over 90% of its money by managing the backend distribution for other adult product companies.