Cody McLain

I certainly am.

It was always something that I gravitated to.

It wasn't even my idea when I first started it.

But when I found this idea of starting this hosting company and I just kind of took off on it.

I mean, there was just something about it that I got addicted to that instead of all the other things that I guess you're typically looking at at that age.

No, actually, it was just me and a friend and we were trying to figure out how to get money to buy this new Xbox that came out.

And then he came up with this brilliant idea to start a hosting company.

He looked at HostGator and he saw that you can sign up for a reseller account for like 25 bucks a month.

And I guess we both kind of had this idea that, oh, we can get like super rich and this is going to be like super easy to just run a hosting company.

And after about a week, our partnership fell apart.

But then there is some part of that that

that process that I was just like, wow, I actually feel like I found something.

And so he kind of dropped out, but I continued to just work on it week after week.

And it just did eventually turn into a business.

And I don't even know when it turned into one, but to me, it felt like just kind of a hobby, like a, like a passion.

It was, it's something that occurred over several years, I was just continuing to build up that company.

The biggest shift was sale, I think I had maybe 3040 clients at some point, and then I had a jump to a dedicated server.

And that was a big change for me as he then had to go figuring out how to manage a server and everything.

And that business, he just continued to grow over two and two and a half, three years until I combined with another partner, and we branched out even further.

Yeah, I believe I was 16 and a half or 17 when I decided to merge companies with another business partner.