Brandt Andersen

Brandt Andersen is an American film producer and the founder of technology company uSight. Between 2006 and 2012, Andersen owned an NBA Development Team called the Utah Flash.

In 1998, during his sophomore year at Brigham Young University, Andersen founded a technology company named uSight that created software products and services for small businesses. In 2004, Inc. Magazine named uSight as the second fastest growing company on its annual Inc 500 list. At the time, uSight had over 100 employees with over 50,000 customers. In early 2005, Andersen sold uSight to National Marketing Resources (located in Kansas City, MO) and returned to BYU.

uSight scandal

Since at least 2000, uSight has received criticism from multiple customers for having failed to deliver products and services. In 2002, uSight ran in with the Utah Division of Consumer Protection, who'd received so many complaints about the company they were doing an investigation.

We were receiving complaints and we did take action [against uSight]. We were able to come to an agreement on some issues," Giani says. "While we have gotten complaints since, we have been able to resolve those issues to those consumers.
—Francine Giani, director of the state Division of Consumer Protection

In the end, access to my own personal web server at uSight.com never became a reality. Either they never intended to make good on the favor they'd offered, or their tech guys decided it was an unreasonable request. During this process of trying to get my account set up on a uSight server, I was asked to do a testimonial for them. They took me to a photographer and asked me to make some favorable statements about them. The end result was my picture on the uSight.com customer testimonials page. I've since asked them to remove it, but apparently testimonials are hard to come by for uSight.com. They still have my picture and testimonial up there. I'm the goofy bald guy wearing the OuterSports.com shirt. The funny thing about it is that the testimonial is on a page entitled "Real Stories".
—Richard Robbins, blogger

Two years later, Andersen sold the company for an undisclosed amount that is reported to be above $50M. uSight remained operative until December 2010, and the domain "usight.com" is currently for sale.

Michael Jordan scandal

In September 2009, Andersen suggested to the media that Michael Jordan and Byron Russell settle their "war of words" by playing a game for charity during halftime of one of his team's games. Andersen hired a Jordan lookalike to drive around town and attract publicity for the event, despite the fact that Michael Jordan never explicitly said he would attend. When the Michael Jordan lookalike went onto the court, tempers flared and some people threw away their season tickets. On December 12 2009, Andersen issued an apology on the Utah Development League blog stating that he would refund any tickets thrown away and accept them for the next game.