John Gafford

Now I can kind of see it.

So first off, man, tell me about you.

Let's get into who you are as a human first.

So are you still in Columbus now?

Now, when you were doing traditional roofing, how big did that company, how big did you scale that business to?

Well, because the reason I asked if you were still in Columbus is one of my good friends, it just occurred to me when you said that, just had a massive exit to private equity in the roofing business, and they live in Columbus.

Yeah.

Anything, I think that's the hedge against AI is anything that, you know, AI is not going to come roof a house and it's not going to come put an air conditioner in and it's not going to come plumb your pipes.

Yeah.

It's moving.

Well, it's where the jobs are going to be and it's what, you know, what you can keep.

So when you exited that company, was that something you were looking for?

Did somebody just come knocking on your door with a check that you couldn't say no to?

So you guys developed this product.

This was a problem you took to the lab and said, well, how can we figure this out?

Okay, what you just said, you glossed over it, but I found really interesting what you just said, which was, I found an old patent and I just figured they didn't know how to take it to market.

Walk me through that entire process because that's something, if somebody's listening to this right now, right?

And you have an expertise in some niche business.

Sure.

You might be able to just start doing patent searches around your business.