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D 4 · C 4 · P 3 · Cm 3 3.60
Q Okay, so what extent did it work out to? What happened?
A Uh, well, I actually have a book coming out as well later this year that details this whole process because when I first started my, my business really about my story is, uh, partly when I was starting that first business, I ended up in foster care as well. Um, both my parents died when I was young, so I really had no backup plan. And that was kind of this extra emphasis to make my business successful. When I moved up to Vancouver and I partnered with this guy, uh, we ended up Finding this guy who was running a penny stock company and he wanted to buy us and he would, he said that he was going to find us investors and everything. Long story short, he ended up screwing us over and there was a lot of legal battles and everything else like that. And that was over a period of a year. And it was, it was most incredibly painful because I was running this business, not knowing every day if I'm going to wake up and whether it's going to be still, still be mine or not. And after that, after about a year of litigation, we.
AI assessment note: “he ended up screwing us over and there was a lot of legal battles”
Partly produced feed
D 3 · C 4 · P 3 · Cm 3 3.30
Q Okay, got it. Um, and interesting. So, what are, what, just out of curiosity, what are margins like in that business? What are gross margins like and what are net margins like?
A Uh, really the hosting industry, it's, it's actually very difficult to have good margins. Uh, my margins were going to be on the lower end because what I ended up doing is actually leasing servers. So when you, when you're starting a hosting company, you end up, uh, the easier route is to lease servers instead of own the servers. Yeah. You keep your initial costs low, but it makes your, your expenses significantly higher in the long run. And since I didn't have the capital go and buy a couple thousand dollars worth of servers, and then also having to figure out which data center I'm going to put it at. And which, which can I, can I have a, a guy that's going to be around 24 hours a day, seven days a week to respond to any server issues. And that would affect your reputation. So I decided to just lease everything out. And so on the benefit of that though, is that when you decide to sell the company, it, it, it essentially creates the only assets in the company is going to be the client database. And so, uh, the new provider, they just had all their own servers. So it's actually preferable when you end up selling it to just not have any of physical assets.
AI assessment note: “it's actually very difficult to have good margins. Uh, my margins were going to be on the lower end”
Answered produced feed
D 3 · C 4 · P 3 · Cm 3 3.30
Q Okay, so what extent did it work out to? What happened?
A Uh, well, I actually have a book coming out as well later this year that details this whole process because when I first started my, my business really about my story is, uh, partly when I was starting that first business, I ended up in foster care as well. Um, both my parents died when I was young, so I really had no backup plan. And that was kind of this extra emphasis to make my business successful. When I moved up to Vancouver and I partnered with this guy, uh, we ended up Finding this guy who was running a penny stock company and he wanted to buy us and he would, he said that he was going to find us investors and everything. Long story short, he ended up screwing us over and there was a lot of legal battles and everything else like that. And that was over a period of a year. And it was, it was most incredibly painful because I was running this business, not knowing every day if I'm going to wake up and whether it's going to be still, still be mine or not. And after that, after about a year of litigation, we.
AI assessment note: “he ended up screwing us over and there was a lot of legal battles”
Partly produced feed
D 3 · C 4 · P 3 · Cm 3 3.30
Q Okay, got it. Um, and interesting. So, what are, what, just out of curiosity, what are margins like in that business? What are gross margins like and what are net margins like?
A Uh, really the hosting industry, it's, it's actually very difficult to have good margins. Uh, my margins were going to be on the lower end because what I ended up doing is actually leasing servers. So when you, when you're starting a hosting company, you end up, uh, the easier route is to lease servers instead of own the servers. Yeah. You keep your initial costs low, but it makes your, your expenses significantly higher in the long run. And since I didn't have the capital go and buy a couple thousand dollars worth of servers, and then also having to figure out which data center I'm going to put it at. And which, which can I, can I have a, a guy that's going to be around 24 hours a day, seven days a week to respond to any server issues. And that would affect your reputation. So I decided to just lease everything out. And so on the benefit of that though, is that when you decide to sell the company, it, it, it essentially creates the only assets in the company is going to be the client database. And so, uh, the new provider, they just had all their own servers. So it's actually preferable when you end up selling it to just not have any of physical assets.
AI assessment note: “really the hosting industry, it's, it's actually very difficult to have good margins.”
