After leaving his role at The Sharper Image, Thalheimer started his own online retail business in 2007, RichardSolo.

[4] After rebranding to The Sharper Image, Thalheimer stated in interviews that he had a desire to transform the business into a mail-order retail empire.

He generated $5k in profits from the watch and marketing campaign and began to repeat the process with other products and became a millionaire at the age of 27.

[8] Other products included the first telephone answering machine, the first hand-held microcomputer, the first children's two-wheel Razor Scooter, and the Ionic Breeze Air Purifier.

[10] During the opening of a Sharper Image store on Sutter Street in San Francisco in 1996, Thalheimer gave a presentation with NeXT Computer founder, Steve Jobs.

In some cases, Thalheimer also presented a short segment on how the website had allowed the company to transition from a traditional catalog model to online.

At Internet World expo in 1996, Thalheimer presented a segment during Steve Jobs' speech about dynamic web pages.

[15] At the time, some magazines such as Wired spoke about the technology used by The Sharper Image and how Jobs' innovations were likely to change the retail sector forever.

[16] In the coming years, the model worked on with Thalheimer was offered and reproduced at other large retailers across the United States.

Thalheimer moved from managing the day-to-day operations that year to spending 4 days a week with the design-time coming up with new concepts and products.

It began in 2007 when he signed an exclusivity agreement to distribute a backup battery pack for smart devices, such as iPhones.

[1] Thalheimer recognized that the success wasn't only the charging of a phone on the go, but also the notoriously poor battery life of the iPhone.

[27] In 2010, Thalheimer devoted his full-time energies to managing his stock portfolio and began to study with the Najarian Brothers.

During a podcast interview, Thalheimer spoke about his simple, yet effective option trading strategies and public stock predictions.

[28] Thalheimer stated that after the fall in share price, Chipotle hired the ex-Taco Bell CEO, Brian Niccol.

At the time of the podcast interview, Thalheimer stated he had made large returns due to the increase he had seen in the restaurant chain's share price.

He stated that many of the critical views by both analysts and industry experts, such as Bob Lutz, were looking at market conditions incorrectly.

[32] The Sharper Image based an "invention lab" in Novato, California that had the sole purpose of designing and developing new products.

It was Thalheimer's vision to design products and during the last decade at The Sharper Image, he spent a lot of time at the Novato facility.