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Jason Zook

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
250 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 107: Did going through 3 dads make you more creative? With Jason Zook

Yeah, I saw an opportunity to let a company buy my last name when my mom went through a divorce, my third father at the time, unfortunately.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 107: Did going through 3 dads make you more creative? With Jason Zook

And I was left with a name that I no longer wanted.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 107: Did going through 3 dads make you more creative? With Jason Zook

And what do you do?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 107: Did going through 3 dads make you more creative? With Jason Zook

And at the time, I was the I-wear-your-shirt guy.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 107: Did going through 3 dads make you more creative? With Jason Zook

I had been wearing T-shirts for a living, working with sponsors for four years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 107: Did going through 3 dads make you more creative? With Jason Zook

And I said, screw it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 107: Did going through 3 dads make you more creative? With Jason Zook

Let's sell my last name.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 107: Did going through 3 dads make you more creative? With Jason Zook

But you know, if I could sell t-shirts for a living, I got to be able to sell my last name and launched a website.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 107: Did going through 3 dads make you more creative? With Jason Zook

And believe it or not, first day, $33,000 was bid at the end of the first day.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 107: Did going through 3 dads make you more creative? With Jason Zook

And it was a 30-day auction that ended at 45 grand.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 107: Did going through 3 dads make you more creative? With Jason Zook

I went on to sell it a second time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 107: Did going through 3 dads make you more creative? With Jason Zook

And I lived with a last name that was a brand's name for two years.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 107: Did going through 3 dads make you more creative? With Jason Zook

And my life changed in no way whatsoever.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 107: Did going through 3 dads make you more creative? With Jason Zook

That was the crazy thing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 107: Did going through 3 dads make you more creative? With Jason Zook

That was headsets.com.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 107: Did going through 3 dads make you more creative? With Jason Zook

So my last name literally was headsets, D-O-T-C-O-M.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 107: Did going through 3 dads make you more creative? With Jason Zook

If you want to make a TSA agent laugh, that is the only way I have ever found out how is to have a ridiculous last name and they will laugh at you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 107: Did going through 3 dads make you more creative? With Jason Zook

Yeah, no, I think that's a great way to go.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 107: Did going through 3 dads make you more creative? With Jason Zook

And listen, you know, the top try better than I do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 107: Did going through 3 dads make you more creative? With Jason Zook

But I believe that with every idea it is.

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