[5] He owned the web design firm, Creative Internet Solutions, which he sold in 1999 to Control Data Corporation.

There, he developed the idea to open a video-game-playing facility while watching his employees play computer games after work.

[7] The salon, one of the original PC-gaming rooms in the United States,[8] was founded from the profits Arndt received from a gaming news website he bought in the late 1990s called Stomped.com.

[9] In March 2007, Arndt sold his house in Eden Prairie, Minnesota in order to travel the world.

[16] Arndt has won awards from the Society of American Travel Writers[17][18][19][20][21] and other organizations.