Sal Laudano founded the company PORTOPONG LLC with long time friend, Jerry Piscitelli, in March 2007. While planning a vacation and thinking of ideas for fun drinking games in the pool they came up with the idea of aquatic beerpong and decided to then follow through on this crazy idea. After a lot of hard work they produced the first prototype in early spring of 2007 and then had their working production model finished by the middle of that summer. With a lot of hard work the brand has grown into PORTOPONG.