Cody McLain

And then we we grew that one exponentially as well.

I'd like to say maybe 100, 100, 150,000.

It was somebody that I was working with for a while and he had a lot of business experience and background and legal and taxes and all these things.

And so then we decided to just emerge and I would handle the whole marketing and the business and the branding and it seemed like a perfect match.

So then I moved up to Vancouver.

I was living in Cincinnati at the time and then we... He was up there or she was up there?

Yeah, he was up in Vancouver.

And yeah, we started that and it grew.

We just really split it 5050.

There really wasn't a conversation about that.

And I've certainly, I certainly wouldn't recommend doing 5050.

But that was just what we what we had at the time.

And we both trusted each other and it worked out to the extent that it did.

Well, I actually have a book coming out as well later this year that details this whole process, because when I first started my business, really about my story is partly when I was starting that first business, I ended up in foster care as well.

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, we ended up

finding this guy who was running a penny stock company and he wanted to buy us and he would he said 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 and how old are you cody just so people can follow the story

19.

And so after that, we just ended up to give him the company.