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• 0:01
  Dave Hamilton: Business brain episode 769 for casual friday ai july 10th shannon i have a question
• 0:09
  Dave Hamilton: for you uh yes do you like pina coladas.
• 0:15
  Shannon Jean: No oh well i do
• 0:16
  Dave Hamilton: Not well then you can escape because today is national pina colada day 2026 i know.
• 0:24
  Shannon Jean: That's nice what's that uh stand it what's the part other part of that song pina coladas and
• 0:28
  Dave Hamilton: Getting caught in the rain.
• 0:30
  Shannon Jean: Getting caught in the rain i do like getting caught in the rain
• 0:32
  Dave Hamilton: Same i do too yeah i also think that song is one of the most romantic songs
• 0:36
  Dave Hamilton: that exists and i know it's about a couple that that planned on cheating on
• 0:40
  Dave Hamilton: each other yeah and found each other Yes. It's great.
• 0:44
  Shannon Jean: You know what they say, there's no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothes.
• 0:48
  Dave Hamilton: You have the wrong clothes. That's what they say in Canada.
• 0:53
  Dave Hamilton: I don't know that we say that here in the United States, but it's true in Canada.
• 0:57
  Dave Hamilton: Yeah, yeah. It's just the wrong clothes.
• 1:00
  Dave Hamilton: Hey, guess what, Shannon? Tell me. I made 10 grand by surprise last week.
• 1:05
  Shannon Jean: Really? Yeah. I like that. That's exciting. Yeah, it was. Tell me more.
• 1:09
  Shannon Jean: How can I make 10 grand by surprise?
• 1:10
  Dave Hamilton: Well, that's the thing is you can't plan for surprises, although I would like
• 1:15
  Dave Hamilton: to say that I kind of planned for this surprise.
• 1:19
  Dave Hamilton: AI definitely helped me with it. Okay. I, over the years, have bought a bunch
• 1:24
  Dave Hamilton: of different domains for a bunch of different reasons.
• 1:27
  Dave Hamilton: And by and large, I keep renewing them. I don't let them expire.
• 1:33
  Dave Hamilton: And I'm not going to share the domain only because I've shared the price and,
• 1:39
  Dave Hamilton: I don't need to share someone else's business, right? Like, I would be fine
• 1:44
  Dave Hamilton: telling you what domain I sold for 10 grand.
• 1:47
  Dave Hamilton: But I did. I sold a domain for 10 grand last week.
• 1:48
  Shannon Jean: Congratulations.
• 1:49
  Dave Hamilton: That's awesome. It was not a domain that I had put on the block.
• 1:53
  Dave Hamilton: I got one of those emails through my registrar. I use Cloudflare and I,
• 1:59
  Dave Hamilton: you know, it's all private. So the email comes from Cloudflare and It's like,
• 2:02
  Dave Hamilton: you got an email from this person interested in your domain.
• 2:06
  Dave Hamilton: And the way they worded their email was basically like all of the other tire
• 2:10
  Dave Hamilton: kickers that have ever shown up in the last 20 whatever years that I've been
• 2:15
  Dave Hamilton: owning to 30 years that I've been owning domains.
• 2:17
  Dave Hamilton: And this particular domain I owned for 21 years when I from when I registered
• 2:22
  Dave Hamilton: it. And it was a good domain. Yeah, it is a good domain. Yep.
• 2:25
  Dave Hamilton: But I had no use for it. Obviously, I wasn't using it.
• 2:29
  Dave Hamilton: But uh so i got this email and it was like well i should reply which,
• 2:35
  Dave Hamilton: in the past i have not so this is the lesson here right is i took it and i fed
• 2:41
  Dave Hamilton: it into claude and i i said all right look here's this email,
• 2:45
  Dave Hamilton: how do i go about valuing a domain that has no,
• 2:49
  Dave Hamilton: cash flow assigned to it like it it's literally just sitting there completely
• 2:53
  Dave Hamilton: unused but clearly it has value,
• 2:58
  Dave Hamilton: and uh And Claude was like, all right, well, here's these websites that,
• 3:01
  Dave Hamilton: you know, will value domains and this, that, and the other thing.
• 3:04
  Dave Hamilton: And it did its own little analysis. And I did my own analysis.
• 3:09
  Dave Hamilton: And I came up with a number that was somewhere between six and eight grand.
• 3:14
  Dave Hamilton: And and so, you know, Claude and I collaborated on how to reply to this email,
• 3:21
  Dave Hamilton: and I really thought it was just going to go nowhere, obviously.
• 3:24
  Dave Hamilton: And so I was like, all right, you know what? I'm going to I'm going to tell
• 3:27
  Dave Hamilton: this person that my price is 15K and we'll see what happens.
• 3:33
  Dave Hamilton: You know, we'll we'll come in high, higher than I think it's worth.
• 3:37
  Dave Hamilton: But again, I don't know who this person is.
• 3:40
  Dave Hamilton: I know that sometimes when even large companies especially when large companies
• 3:46
  Dave Hamilton: want to buy domains they send someone out personally that has no relation to the large company to go,
• 3:53
  Dave Hamilton: and hunt because if you know who's buying your price may change right that's
• 3:57
  Dave Hamilton: right so i kind of assumed okay this is a large company i you know we all know
• 4:01
  Dave Hamilton: it's worth you know let's say 7 500 bucks so let's double the price and see what happens and,
• 4:09
  Dave Hamilton: um i don't know four days later maybe something like that i got an email back
• 4:12
  Dave Hamilton: from them and and there was we claude and i you know had a whole like cascading
• 4:17
  Dave Hamilton: decision tree about how to negotiate with the person who replied or whatever,
• 4:22
  Dave Hamilton: and the person came back and they're like yes,
• 4:25
  Dave Hamilton: uh i i can't do 15 i can do 10 and i looked uh uh,
• 4:30
  Dave Hamilton: and And I had mentioned something about if you're ready to move forward, we can use escrow.com.
• 4:35
  Dave Hamilton: And, you know, we can keep the fees pretty low.
• 4:39
  Dave Hamilton: And they came back and they were like, yeah, I can do 10. And I looked at escrow.com
• 4:43
  Dave Hamilton: and it looks like I can, they said this, I can absorb the fees.
• 4:47
  Dave Hamilton: So the net to me was going to be 10 even, you know, I wasn't paying any fees.
• 4:50
  Shannon Jean: Nice, man.
• 4:51
  Dave Hamilton: Yep. And I knew that my response was going to be yes at that point,
• 4:56
  Dave Hamilton: not to try and nudge them up to 11 or something.
• 4:58
  Dave Hamilton: Yeah, that's right. Because I knew we were already above what my internal number was for this.
• 5:03
  Shannon Jean: Yeah, that's smart. I love it.
• 5:06
  Dave Hamilton: And Claude agreed. Claude was like, okay, whoa.
• 5:08
  Dave Hamilton: I know we plan to negotiate, but you're already where you, you know,
• 5:12
  Dave Hamilton: like there was an agreement there. Yeah.
• 5:14
  Dave Hamilton: And and so I like we went forward and at the moment that we're recording this,
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  Dave Hamilton: I have not received the funds because they're in process from escrow dot com to me.
• 5:27
  Dave Hamilton: OK, but escrow dot com has approved like like the domain is no longer in my
• 5:33
  Dave Hamilton: Cloudflare account. Like, I've given the domain away.
• 5:36
  Dave Hamilton: Escrow.com has said they've dispersed the funds to me. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 5:40
  Dave Hamilton: Escrow.com's on the hook if I don't get the funds, which is fine. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
• 5:44
  Shannon Jean: No, they're great. I've used it for two. Yeah. It's such a great example.
• 5:47
  Shannon Jean: First, congratulations. Thank you.
• 5:48
  Shannon Jean: That's awesome. That's more than I've only, I've gotten $5,000 from one of my
• 5:53
  Shannon Jean: domains. And hopefully that paid for, I'm not sure I'm in the black for domain owners.
• 6:00
  Dave Hamilton: Yeah, exactly. Same.
• 6:01
  Shannon Jean: But I have a hard time not registering them whenever I'm like, oh, that's a good one.
• 6:07
  Shannon Jean: But what I love about that story is the using AI as a collaborator, right?
• 6:14
  Shannon Jean: Where you're bouncing things back and forth. And I've shifted the way I use
• 6:20
  Shannon Jean: Claude and Perplexity and even ChatGPT a lot in the last few months of more
• 6:25
  Shannon Jean: of this collaboration mode where I'm, you know, what
• 6:30
  Shannon Jean: is – what is that mark cuban made that statement he said there's some people are using ai to learn
• 6:38
  Shannon Jean: everything yeah right all kinds of new things sure other people are using ai to learn nothing
• 6:44
  Shannon Jean: right because they're just trying to get it to do the work but this collaboration
• 6:47
  Shannon Jean: mode where you're back and forth hey here's a situation and i want you to look
• 6:52
  Shannon Jean: at this what are the things you need ask me questions let's put it together it's such a powerful uh
• 6:58
  Dave Hamilton: System i don't think i would have sold this domain at all were it not for claude
• 7:04
  Dave Hamilton: and i like the opportunity still would have been there obviously it wasn't an
• 7:09
  Dave Hamilton: ai buying the domain it was a real human with real dollars right,
• 7:13
  Dave Hamilton: but i think i would have talked myself out of selling it because even when it
• 7:18
  Dave Hamilton: was all said and done it was literally,
• 7:20
  Dave Hamilton: the i was i was 15 minutes late to my daughter's wedding rehearsal dinner or
• 7:27
  Dave Hamilton: rehearsal because i had to set up the escrow.com account to like you know get
• 7:31
  Dave Hamilton: this process rolling it was fine it was all good doesn't matter yeah yeah,
• 7:34
  Dave Hamilton: i'm the father of the bride i can as she said You can do no wrong.
• 7:37
  Shannon Jean: You're the least important person, right? Yeah, but like,
• 7:40
  Dave Hamilton: When it comes down to it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll start when you're here.
• 7:44
  Dave Hamilton: I'm like, great, perfect. Yeah.
• 7:46
  Dave Hamilton: That's cool. But like, I...
• 7:50
  Dave Hamilton: I think I even once all of this started happening, I did have that moment of
• 7:55
  Dave Hamilton: hesitation, like, should I sell this or might I do something with it someday?
• 8:00
  Dave Hamilton: And yeah. And because I had sort of gone through this with Claude,
• 8:03
  Dave Hamilton: it was like, I know I haven't done anything with this domain in 21 years.
• 8:07
  Shannon Jean: Chances of you. Right.
• 8:09
  Dave Hamilton: It's it's slim. Yeah. So but like, had I not had the confidential collaborator that Claude is. Yeah.
• 8:20
  Dave Hamilton: You know, I had no enough, no one to be embarrassed with. Like,
• 8:23
  Dave Hamilton: I didn't need to ask dumb questions of somebody else.
• 8:27
  Dave Hamilton: And these are dumb questions that I knew the answer to, but I needed to see the answer confirmed.
• 8:32
  Dave Hamilton: And that value of AI is huge. I mean, it's the same reason that it's great for
• 8:38
  Dave Hamilton: the, you know, procrastination eliminator. Right. Like, it's all that stuff.
• 8:44
  Dave Hamilton: So like i i i really love it when i say that ai made me 10 grand last week i
• 8:50
  Dave Hamilton: mean it i really think i would have talked myself out of selling this were it
• 8:53
  Dave Hamilton: not for the obvious answers i was getting from claude.
• 8:56
  Shannon Jean: Yeah yeah and it goes to the point we had a we did a show a few weeks ago where we talked about
• 9:01
  Shannon Jean: using ai for just everyday situations that pop up yeah more so than oh i got
• 9:06
  Shannon Jean: to do this big project so i'm going to do it but hey it's just things that are coming up in the day
• 9:11
  Shannon Jean: how to communicate in situations that you haven't done before how to analyze
• 9:15
  Shannon Jean: things that you're not familiar with like domain sales and all that kind of
• 9:18
  Shannon Jean: stuff it's it's it's just a uh
• 9:20
  Shannon Jean: it's great to have them as uh
• 9:23
  Shannon Jean: you know collaborator
• 9:24
  Dave Hamilton: Yeah that collaborator yeah it was great yeah yeah yeah so there you go yeah
• 9:28
  Dave Hamilton: it's awesome whether it pays for my uh,
• 9:32
  Dave Hamilton: the history of of you know the last two and a half decades of registering and
• 9:38
  Dave Hamilton: renewing domains is irrelevant what it definitely pays for is my subscription to claude,
• 9:44
  Dave Hamilton: and that like so claude has more than paid for itself for me and that i mean
• 9:50
  Dave Hamilton: that was true before this happened too like but
• 9:52
  Dave Hamilton: you know now it's like in in actual dollars here we go so yeah it's pretty good
• 9:57
  Dave Hamilton: it's great man yeah great story yeah yeah and there's a there's a freedom that
• 10:00
  Dave Hamilton: comes with it it's like oh wait now i have a skill,
• 10:04
  Dave Hamilton: like i've done this once actually i've done it twice i i traded a domain for
• 10:08
  Dave Hamilton: a mac mini a couple years ago uh.
• 10:11
  Dave Hamilton: Yeah but which you know it's like okay now like the next time this happens i'm,
• 10:15
  Dave Hamilton: i'm i'm more confident yeah and it's a hundred percent because of Claude.
• 10:21
  Dave Hamilton: You know, it's great. Yeah.
• 10:22
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• 10:27
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• 13:35
  Dave Hamilton: All right, Shannon, so who was this? What happened?
• 13:38
  Shannon Jean: Yeah, so this is Alex Karp. So he's the CEO of Palantir. Palantir?
• 13:43
  Shannon Jean: Palantir? Okay. P-E-A-L-N.
• 13:45
  Shannon Jean: I don't know exactly how you pronounce it, but I think it's just Palantir.
• 13:48
  Shannon Jean: They're in big data analytics. I don't even know how you'd explain their company.
• 13:53
  Shannon Jean: Sure. But they do massive amounts of data analysis, lots of stuff for the government
• 13:57
  Shannon Jean: and private enterprise as well.
• 14:00
  Shannon Jean: But Alex Karp's an interesting guy.
• 14:05
  Shannon Jean: He really doesn't hold things back. He's just kind of out there.
• 14:09
  Shannon Jean: Okay. Love that. He had this conversation. In fact. He had a conversation. Yeah, me too.
• 14:13
  Shannon Jean: Had this conversation on CNBC.
• 14:15
  Shannon Jean: I think it was Thursday or maybe even Friday, talking about the AI frontier models, like OpenAI,
• 14:26
  Shannon Jean: Claude with Anthropic and this kind of stuff, and talking about the reason,
• 14:32
  Shannon Jean: in his opinion, the whole system is messed up because
• 14:38
  Shannon Jean: these large enterprise companies are paying for tokens right paying for all
• 14:42
  Shannon Jean: this usage and these frontier models are hoovering up all their ip
• 14:48
  Shannon Jean: yeah then training their models on them and then coming out with the solution
• 14:53
  Shannon Jean: or a product that helps or that competes against those uh those entities for
• 14:59
  Shannon Jean: sure and i thought about it i was like man i I wonder, is
• 15:05
  Shannon Jean: I don't know that it impacts small business owners like us, but,
• 15:09
  Shannon Jean: you know, because we're running all these things. And we've talked about this
• 15:13
  Shannon Jean: here on the show. Matter of fact, we might even talk about it last week a little bit.
• 15:16
  Shannon Jean: But it points me to more of that.
• 15:20
  Shannon Jean: The future is going to be a lot of on-device AI.
• 15:25
  Dave Hamilton: Oh, yeah. Yeah, for sure.
• 15:26
  Shannon Jean: Not uploading all your stuff to the cloud.
• 15:30
  Shannon Jean: Not, you know, using the cloud when it needs it, right? when it needs that extra
• 15:34
  Shannon Jean: horsepower, I guess, to go out and everything.
• 15:36
  Shannon Jean: And I was listening to one of my favorite shows I listen to is called All In Podcast.
• 15:41
  Shannon Jean: And they were talking about this same thing. And the standout sentence was,
• 15:47
  Shannon Jean: You can't rent intelligence from the same place that rents it to your competitors.
• 15:55
  Dave Hamilton: Oh.
• 15:56
  Shannon Jean: And I thought that was pretty interesting because that's what's happening, right?
• 16:01
  Shannon Jean: All these companies are piling into this AI space and spending a ton of money.
• 16:09
  Shannon Jean: And I think there's some backlash coming back about, okay, how effective is it really?
• 16:15
  Shannon Jean: Sure. Sure. What's happening to our IP, they call it their alpha,
• 16:21
  Shannon Jean: their trade secrets or their whatever it is, your secret sauce,
• 16:25
  Shannon Jean: your systems, and all that kind of stuff.
• 16:26
  Shannon Jean: And when I heard that, I was like, that's interesting. You can't rent intelligence
• 16:30
  Shannon Jean: from the same place it rents it to your competitors.
• 16:33
  Shannon Jean: And it's wild. And you've seen Claude and OpenAI, probably not OpenAI as much,
• 16:39
  Shannon Jean: but certainly Anthropic coming out with various different types of Claude.
• 16:45
  Shannon Jean: Like they just came out with a design level.
• 16:47
  Dave Hamilton: Yeah. Sure.
• 16:48
  Shannon Jean: A model. They, they came out with a legal model for lawyers and it came out
• 16:52
  Shannon Jean: with these other things. So, you know, how are they learning that stuff?
• 16:56
  Shannon Jean: So it's kind of interesting.
• 16:57
  Dave Hamilton: Um,
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  Dave Hamilton: I disagree with his statement, at least how I'm interpreting his statement that
• 17:08
  Dave Hamilton: you can't rent intelligence from the same place that rents it to your competitors. I, to me,
• 17:15
  Dave Hamilton: I, I've never run a business that relied on a secret way of doing things as
• 17:26
  Dave Hamilton: our competitive advantage.
• 17:29
  Dave Hamilton: Okay. Makes sense. Yeah. Makes sense. From my perspective.
• 17:33
  Shannon Jean: I would say the same thing. There's not. Yeah. It's just the actual showing up and getting it done.
• 17:37
  Dave Hamilton: Getting it done. Right. Yes. So, like, I've certainly taken the knowledge that
• 17:43
  Dave Hamilton: is common and applied it in smart ways.
• 17:49
  Dave Hamilton: Yes. And taken advantage of that many times, including right now with AI.
• 17:57
  Dave Hamilton: Like the way i am using ai is better than some of my competition not all of
• 18:04
  Dave Hamilton: my competition some of my competition is using ai better than me but really
• 18:08
  Dave Hamilton: my worst competition is me so
• 18:10
  Dave Hamilton: it you know i i just take that which is available,
• 18:14
  Dave Hamilton: i apply it to our businesses in the way the best ways i can think to or that
• 18:19
  Dave Hamilton: we can think to it doesn't all have to be me you know obviously and and that's it so i i don't,
• 18:26
  Dave Hamilton: like i get what i understand why he's saying what he's saying and that you have
• 18:30
  Dave Hamilton: to keep your private stuff private right but that's not what he's saying two.
• 18:37
  Shannon Jean: Different people oh
• 18:38
  Dave Hamilton: Okay i did.
• 18:39
  Shannon Jean: Not say that okay this was a
• 18:40
  Dave Hamilton: Podcast yeah okay.
• 18:42
  Shannon Jean: Carp is saying listen you need to you you need to build your own llm you need
• 18:49
  Shannon Jean: to keep your control of your own data yes you need To,
• 18:54
  Shannon Jean: you know, because you can't be paying millions of dollars and then getting shut out.
• 18:58
  Shannon Jean: So I think it's more of an enterprise problem, a big company,
• 19:03
  Shannon Jean: corporate type problem than guys like us are going to face because we're,
• 19:07
  Shannon Jean: you know, doing piecemeal.
• 19:08
  Shannon Jean: They don't want to come compete with me. They don't want to compete in the podcast
• 19:10
  Shannon Jean: space and advertising. They don't want to. But they certainly want to compete
• 19:13
  Shannon Jean: in the CRM space and the legal space.
• 19:16
  Dave Hamilton: But here's the thing about the CRM space. Everybody like you and me,
• 19:21
  Dave Hamilton: I don't think a year from now,
• 19:24
  Dave Hamilton: Anyone a year from now who is at our level, and by our level,
• 19:30
  Dave Hamilton: I'm going to define that as, let's say, 25 or fewer, and sometimes much fewer employees, right?
• 19:36
  Dave Hamilton: The small to maybe medium business, so SMMB, I'll coin a term,
• 19:43
  Dave Hamilton: small to maybe medium size business,
• 19:48
  Dave Hamilton: is anybody that is paying for a CRM a year from now has made an error.
• 19:58
  Dave Hamilton: I would agree. There is no reason for it. You can start right now to develop
• 20:03
  Dave Hamilton: your own custom CRM that is not you.
• 20:08
  Dave Hamilton: Currently, what we all have with the SaaS CRMs or even the non-SaaS,
• 20:13
  Dave Hamilton: you know, the ones you run locally, but you buy from someone else,
• 20:16
  Dave Hamilton: you are adapting to someone else's paradigms.
• 20:19
  Dave Hamilton: Now, you pick the ones that match yours the closest, but it's not the best.
• 20:25
  Shannon Jean: But you still have to adapt.
• 20:25
  Dave Hamilton: But you still have to adapt. And here's the reality of this.
• 20:30
  Dave Hamilton: I never have. I have never paid for a CRM because 30 years ago,
• 20:35
  Dave Hamilton: I built a FileMaker database.
• 20:37
  Shannon Jean: Correct. I had the same thing. Right. If you have experience building with FileMaker.
• 20:42
  Dave Hamilton: You are already ahead of the game.
• 20:45
  Shannon Jean: Yeah. Because an app like FileMaker, I'm sure there's other comparable ones.
• 20:49
  Shannon Jean: But knowing that you could build this custom.
• 20:54
  Dave Hamilton: Exactly what you want.
• 20:56
  Shannon Jean: Exactly. It's also a blessing and a curse.
• 21:00
  Dave Hamilton: Oh, you can build it and you have to.
• 21:03
  Shannon Jean: Yes, but you never stop, right? It's like, well, wouldn't it be nice if it did
• 21:08
  Shannon Jean: this and did that? Where with an off-the-shelf CRM, you're like, well, it can't do that.
• 21:12
  Dave Hamilton: Well, but with AI, like I've had Claude Code building me my scripts for FileMaker
• 21:21
  Dave Hamilton: now for the last year. Yeah, that's awesome. And it's great.
• 21:24
  Dave Hamilton: And it truly so i in a year from now if you're still paying for hubspot or whatever,
• 21:31
  Dave Hamilton: like i really think it's a mistake i think you're just throwing money away um,
• 21:35
  Dave Hamilton: yeah i do too so that you know there you go i don't know if that's our big takeaway
• 21:40
  Dave Hamilton: but it's certainly up well it's it's one of the votes so yeah it's yeah yeah.
• 21:45
  Shannon Jean: Yeah yeah i i think um
• 21:48
  Shannon Jean: I think there's a, there's one of the, one of the, I was just thinking of a
• 21:51
  Shannon Jean: big takeaway that was a little bit different about, man, I just lost it.
• 21:57
  Dave Hamilton: I'm sorry. Oh, that's okay. I did it to you.
• 21:59
  Shannon Jean: It happens to the best of us. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, it's no big deal. I do think that,
• 22:04
  Shannon Jean: For me, the big takeaway is the way AI is working today with us and logging
• 22:11
  Shannon Jean: in and doing everything in the cloud is not going to be the way it's done here shortly.
• 22:17
  Shannon Jean: Like, I think in the next 6 to 12 months, a lot of this stuff is going to become
• 22:22
  Shannon Jean: on your computer, on your phone, and it'll change the way people maybe think
• 22:28
  Shannon Jean: about privacy and what you put up there.
• 22:32
  Dave Hamilton: Yeah, but that was last week's big takeaway. Well, it was get ready to hear
• 22:37
  Dave Hamilton: and learn more about using local LLMs with last week's big takeaway.
• 22:41
  Dave Hamilton: I mean, we can iterate on that, but it's similar. You know, it sounds.
• 22:46
  Dave Hamilton: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It rhymes with last week's for sure.
• 22:48
  Shannon Jean: There we go. There you go. Yeah, that's right.
• 22:52
  Dave Hamilton: So I don't know, but like, I think I would still vote for, you got to create
• 22:59
  Dave Hamilton: your own business software. Yeah.
• 23:02
  Shannon Jean: Own your own. There's never been a better time to own, to build your own,
• 23:06
  Shannon Jean: own your own software for sure.
• 23:08
  Shannon Jean: Yes. Yeah. I'm, I'm good with that. I think that's a good, big takeaway.
• 23:11
  Shannon Jean: Yeah. I think we can expand on that in our business blueprints that you can
• 23:15
  Shannon Jean: get after every show. How do they get those business blueprints, Dave?
• 23:19
  Dave Hamilton: They go to businessbrain.show slash blueprints.
• 23:23
  Dave Hamilton: And that is where you get the full business plan based on,
• 23:29
  Dave Hamilton: the fact that there's never been a better time to own and build your own business
• 23:32
  Dave Hamilton: software plus you get the business blueprints for every episode that we've done
• 23:37
  Dave Hamilton: for the last couple of months essentially
• 23:38
  Dave Hamilton: since we started doing business blueprints so yeah go check them out,
• 23:43
  Dave Hamilton: thanks for hanging out folks make sure to uh,
• 23:46
  Dave Hamilton: if you have anything to say to us feedback at businessbrain.show we love hearing from you and uh,
• 23:53
  Dave Hamilton: keep living that charm life we'll see you next week see ya.