Digital Social Hour - How Tech Hacking SAVED My Business: Insider Secrets | Hassan Alaw DSH #639

Episode Date: August 16, 2024

🚀 How Tech Hacking SAVED My Business: Insider Secrets! 🚀 Dive into this electrifying episode of Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly, where you'll uncover how tech hacking and innovative pivots can transform and save a business! 💡 Join Sean and his guest, Hassan from V1 Tech, as they share jaw-dropping stories of entrepreneurial resilience amidst challenges like the graphics card shortage and the ever-evolving gaming industry. 🎮   From adrenaline-pumping tales of gaming exploits to behind-the-scenes tech hacks, this episode is packed with valuable insights you won't want to miss! Tune in now to learn how Hassan's ingenious strategies and creative products kept his business thriving. 🌟   Don't miss out on these insider secrets! Watch now and subscribe for more eye-opening stories on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 📺 Hit that subscribe button and stay tuned for more engaging conversations and cutting-edge insights. 💥 Join the conversation and become part of the journey!   #EntrepreneurialJourney #CustomPcBuilds #OnlineBusinessStrategies #3DPrintingTechnology #PcGamingTrends   CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:25 - Hassan from V1 Tech 04:59 - Babbel Language Learning 06:36 - Hacking Techniques 10:03 - PC Building Journey 12:45 - Manufacturing Insights 17:40 - 3D Printing Technology 18:50 - Building a PC for Adin Ross 19:54 - Time Management Strategies 26:50 - Meeting Steve Will Do It 28:30 - Selena's Custom PC 29:58 - Dana White's Custom PC 31:13 - Future Plans for V1 Tech 32:00 - OUTRO   APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [e-mail]   GUEST: Hassan Alaw https://www.instagram.com/v1hassan https://v1tech.com/   SPONSORS: Deposyt Payment Processing: https://www.deposyt.com/seankelly   LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Thank you for having me. Of course. In town for an anime conference. 100% always. I didn't even know that was a thing out here. There's so many. Yeah? How many people are at this one?

This one probably around like 4,000 or 5,000. So it's a smaller show. That's a smaller show, bro? That's more than like any business conference I went to really yeah anime's got a good following we do some shows that have a quarter million people what yeah new york comic-con is a good example of that oh my god we have eight trade show booths when we do that event dude i didn't know comic-con had a quarter million it's nuts i've never been to a comic-con really yeah i want to go to the because i'm a big funko collector well if you ever need like backstage vip you know sponsorship access bro are you serious yeah dude sign me up when's the next

one uh new york comic cons in october okay but there's one in the next one actually there's a big one in vegas coming up then what yeah and it's comic con no it's uh it's called level up okay so that's a different owner or something yeah all right i'll check that one out yeah i'll check that one out for sure. I wanted to go to the San Diego Comic Con, but they're always sold out. Yeah. And you can't buy secondary, right? I don't know.

I always just get in with our vendor passes. You just sponsor the whole show. Yeah, we're always exhibiting there. Yeah. What's your biggest attraction at your booth? We sell a lot of Plexiglas merch. That's the number one seller at shows and events. The other thing is going to be our mouse pads.

Those are more like mainstream products. And we work with a lot of different artists. So sometimes they'll be at the booth signing and we do some really exclusive collaborations for shows. So we build hype that way. And people love our stuff. Yeah, I'm going to get a new mouse pad from you. I need one.

My mouse pad has done its time. I got you. I've eaten a lot of meals on it yeah it's pretty dirty oh man if you have a black light i'm sure it'll look oh it's disgusting especially my keyboard with ours we actually use neon reactive ink so i might hide some of that stuff blend it and make it look cooler oh really yeah oh that's cool yeah i'm gonna get i'm gonna pimp out my setup for sure um you still gaming heavy right now i haven't had much time to game to be honest in a while okay but i miss it used to be a huge like league csgo player uh what was your rank in league bronze for sure okay is that good no it's the worst oh so you're more of a casual yeah definitely the thing with league

though is it's hard to be casual because it's so tilting. For sure. I think maybe 2013 I was actually Platinum. It was like season two. Okay. So I did get good at one point, but then fell off a cliff after that. Yeah, League is too tilting for me. You got to be very invested. Yeah.

Even Fortnite right now, I try not to get mad, but it's hard sometimes. You'd be dying to some campers or someone just playing weird. Do you like the build mode or non-build hell no those kids are sweats hell to the no i do not play build yeah maybe when it first came out i could do it but now that's what put me off fortnite in the beginning is i could just couldn't like get used to that yeah now that they have a no build i might try it i only do no build hell yeah it's super fun um what's your favorite game of all time though favorite game of all time that's hard uh like what have you spent the most hours on i think the most hours counter-strike csgo okay yeah huge counter-strike player growing up i used to play in eca servers and actually play competitive like middle school oh so you were

nice like yeah condition zero source 1.6 everything okay i never got in a counter strike i was more team fortress 2 okay that game was fun you like your hats huh yeah you didn't play that game not too much okay left for dead yeah i love that game that's a good game there's a new one really yeah back full blood interesting yeah check it out i haven't tried it yet but left 4 dead 2 oh my gosh survival mode i would go hard yeah yeah that's a great game uh runescape love runescape classic huge pk yeah oh you were that kid yeah definitely you probably pk'd me then probably looted all your stuff bro as soon as i cross you think you could get away and then nope free spell and you're

fucked. 100%. Yeah. People got no chill in the PK zone. 100%. We used to do some crazy stuff. Oh, you would team with people? We would team with people.

We'd get, at the time it was Skype that we used and we'd actually like had a thing where you could look up your IP and then DDoS on. What? Buddy, buddy, someone take him in deep where he has a lot of, you know, expensive stuff. We'll drop like expensive items that would protect over his rare stuff. Yeah. They'd pick it up and then we'd DDoS him and kill him. No way.

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So we'd have Ramadan where we'd fast. So all our friends would go to the library during lunch to game. And I actually had a copy of Halo on a flash drive. And I had admin access to all the computers. No way. Yeah. So I had this flash drive. One end is like a female where you could plug a keyboard into it

and then you plug that into the computer and it records a keystroke. So I had that on a couple teacher's PCs. You know, I'd have their actual logins to be able to do like... So everyone would think I'm using a proxy, but no, I'm just... Dude.

I'm logging in directly through the admin access. You were a savage. And so I put Halo on all the computers. That's as bad of a thing that I did. uh we just play games that's so cool did they find out no no one ever found out what yeah that you were playing halo no teacher ever overlooked they just thought it was like on the internet or like legit you know way of playing the game so what are they going to do about it's legendary i remember some kid hacked my high school's website when i was in high school it was hilarious he said

it was a snow day and class was canceled so nobody really knew but um for our ap bio uh quizzes and tests they'd be done online through this teacher's like private website yeah and anytime that i was behind on studying or couldn't like make time for it i would just crash the the website and so you know they would think it's because everyone's trying to hit it this last night and whatever. So the teacher would always give us a couple extra days. And if I had any idea, I was behind it. You're such a savage.

If your teacher's watching this right now, he's probably like, what the hell? Yeah, there's fun ways of hacking. And then there's not so fun ways. Yeah. When your bank account or something serious gets hacked. I got sim hacked once. Really? Have you ever heard of that?

Mm-mm. They call up your mobile phone carrier, pretend to be you. They buy your social security number on the dark web. Wow. So they give it to that person and then they transfer your sim card to their brand new phone.

So all your text messages go to that number. Then they reset all your passwords on Gmail, Venmo, and everything to your bank accounts to that email yeah it's a lot simpler than people think yeah well it's gotten harder now because there's sim protection but it still happens yeah they go after crypto people because they can still like warn my friends about you know getting on their personal stuff in public because you can use a program like can enable a simple like software where you can trade the cookies between you and the router between with somebody else wow so like if you're logged into facebook and i'm

logged into facebook i could log out trade the cookies all of a sudden you're logged out and now i'm on your no way and the same thing applies to bank accounts and everything damn so if you're at the airport you shouldn't yeah you shouldn't you shouldn't be accessing your bank account or at least logging into your social if it's already remembered and you're on there it's probably safe but yeah definitely avoid the whole like that's good to know i've even heard some of the outlets are bugged really like the charging outlets that's wild yeah there's some yeah i only use data when i'm in public even if they have wi-fi i'm like nah it's not worth the risk but even on like two factor i don't use text anymore because of that sim hack really i only use authenticator app yep that's the way to do it that's how they get in your twitter and everything there's been

some major people getting hacked on twitter it's crazy the president got hacked last year really yeah i think it was either obama yeah it was obama i think someone hacked them and made some money so how'd you get into pc gaming uh been in gaming i started with runescape and maple story worked my way up to combat arms team fortress 2 left 4 dead uh portal all those games but valve was the shit back in the day yeah valve was like i feel like they were the pinnacle and they've they've fallen off you've seen the computers i built, right? Yeah. You built one for Steve will do it, right? Yeah. That looks sick. So you build them from scratch. Yeah. So I started doing it as an artist, um, early on. Um, basically I've always been into computers, but QuakeCon is a local trade show event in Dallas. And so I went

there for the first time. I saw everyone's tricking out their computers. They have a mod contest. And that's when I was like, I want to have the coolest computer in the room how do i do that so i got really into manufacturing into the art side of things into the creative so like that's like paint jobs lights water cooling you know yeah all these little things and uh i found out that okay one this is really fun and so I was just the whole year just trying to make this one computer look as badass as possible for the show. And I was looking into

how can I make my computer different than everybody else's. And at the time, everyone was doing like soft tube water cooling. And there was a company that announced the first rigid tube, like acrylic hard line water cooling. And no one did it before. So I actually built two

computers, put that into the boat systems, you know, really figured it out as quickly as I could last second. I was actually bending the tube in the hotel room at the show, trying to get it ready. And then, um, ended up entering that one, uh, or placed in the modding contest that got on the cover of CPU Magazine. And a bunch of trade show companies started hitting me up to do trade show-like builds for their events, for giveaways, for booths. I worked with Intel, the U.S. Navy, Alienware. Damn. So big companies.

And they would market these things and pay for it, at the same time I would get a lot of positive feedback and followers on social from that. And I ended up creating, I would get a lot of requests to do simple customizations for regular people for their PCs. And it didn't quite scale because everything was handmade in my garage. How long did it take to

build one on average about two to three weeks damn that long yeah about 100 hours if i go well it depends on the complexity right yeah i didn't know it was that intense yeah it depends how nuts you want to go i used to hand sleeve the the cable wires one individually holy now i just throw a light up one that's pre-made and it takes five minutes. So it's gotten a lot easier nowadays, especially with the equipment that we have. And the way we got into the equipment is I actually wanted to create products to help other people trick out their own computers without needing to be an artist, without having to have the equipment or the experience. And so the first invention I had was the RGB GPU backplate. So the graphics card backplate, it's the center point of your PC. And people can upload their own graphics.

It can be backlit. And it's a piece of acrylic that we machine and print in-house. And so that was the first thing that took off for V1Tech. That allowed us to kind of like create a whole genre of PC modding products. Yeah. And then that led into, during COVID, we actually took off because everyone was building a PC from home, everyone's checking out their builds,

and I think everyone wanted to make their environment better because they're at home all the time. So I thought we had a luxury product, but that kind of opened my eyes to, okay, actually a lot of people value this more than just a luxury. People like to express themselves, and that's one of the most influential reasons why people do the things that we do. It's kind of how I got into building was I wanted to express myself.

And then when the chip shortage hit shortly after and GPU mining took off, no one could buy a graphics card. And so building PCs kind of like was falling off a cliff. I remember that. That's when I got into diversifying my product, something more mainstream. So we took the back plates plates made them bigger we made them posters for your wall so the plexiglass wall art saved my business but it's also allowed us to grow to the next level because the pc stuff you can't really take to trade show events you can't really it's all got to be made to order there's thousands of different models so many different designs we work with a ton of artists yeah and so to stock it and take it to a show and hope that we can hit the right customer didn't work.

So we would just market. But with this product now, actually shows makes us a huge part of our revenue. Right. You could just collect POs on the spot with that, right? Yeah. And then we can go big. We can have a lot of branding

and it converts to everything we do. And then, you know, it's all kind of compounded and then the relationships i've built just from the pc side of things with all the big companies and the influencers and whatnot it's kind of allowed us to pretty much be this unique you know company that does all kinds of things in different areas yeah yeah it's been a crazy journey that's cool to see you pivot though because that could could have ended your business with the graphics card shortage. I remember that they were like 2000 bucks at one point, right? Yeah. Everybody, uh, I've seen a lot of companies come and go. I've had a lot of companies try to copy us, come and go. Um, I think, uh, you know,

pioneering something or inventing something that's valuable is one thing, but executing it is a completely different thing. But then the hardest part isn't even scaling it. It's actually just maintaining it and keeping things fresh and not saturating and just evolving. So that's been the biggest challenge as an entrepreneur myself on what to figure out is people, timing the market, doing the right things. Yeah.

Yeah. That makes sense. What do you see as the next big wave of things? There's a lot of products that I want to create. I think I'm always trying to add like a unique value thing that I believe will enhance the experience of whatever the product is um so one of the things like for our plexiglass wall arts i've noticed a lot of people are collecting skateboards and they don't skate on them they just make it wall art so an acrylic skateboard is actually uh much more beautiful if you're able to do that and you could light it up right and so

that's something now we're coming out with oh and there's a lot of other things too so like our new shadow box uh it's an led rgb uh frame for the wall art but it's actually got slots in it so you could do 3d um you know designs you could do a clear piece on the front with some elements and have a background and you can mix and match artist stuff wow to make super unique creative that's cool yeah it's almost like uh mixed tiles or whatever that rug company is yeah i've got the name of it but way cooler so a lot of people compare us to like display when it comes to our posters the way we collaborate with artists and brands um but you can't backlight metal uh you can't do the same amount of um effects as you can with plexi you definitely can't sync it with your gaming setup yeah i agree plexi is cool but it's just there you can't modify it at all right yeah i like the videos on how it's made

though it's really satisfying yeah so we got these really big flatbed printers it's always wild to go in there and see like all these spaceships are making you know our products and that's cool i remember growing up people thought 3d printers were going to be huge they are they are yeah oh i feel like they kind of lost the spotlight i would say people got like the hype was ahead of its time yeah it's kind of like metaverse that hype was just 100% too ahead yeah so but i think uh the actual technology now is definitely it's caught up catching up big time. So speed is the biggest problem with 3D printers. How quickly can it

produce whatever object? Because typically they'll just, for mass production, use it to create molds or plastic injection molding or other things like jigs and whatnot. But now you can actually create products at scale

with certain 3d printers oh okay i saw some people making houses out of them these days yeah that is crazy yeah i don't know if that's gonna be like the way it's gonna happen in the future i think it's a cool idea um some people are making money doing it that way. Yeah. But yeah, definitely it's going to get us to the next step to probably what it's going to end up becoming. I'm excited for that. I saw you just made a PC for Aiden Ross, right? Working on it. Nice. Yeah.

So a lot of people want to get a PC from me. I have very limited time. I run a huge company. At the same time, I do these as kind of like a an artist side hustle now like we don't do pc builds normally on our website we like to work with other brands um to help them customize their pcs and refer them to the to their right it's a very cost you know um intensive business um one day maybe we'll bring it in-house or partner with somebody but yeah just on the personal side i do really high-end pcs for either companies that value it or high net worth individuals and uh i got a list of people that want one and uh

the time frame for when i'm going to be able to deliver those is like stretching out. You're probably almost a year out at this point. Because I didn't know they took two to three weeks. That's crazy. And that's when I can find the two to three weeks to do them. Right. You know what I mean? Damn.

That's intense. That's a good move though with Aiden because he's the biggest streamer in the world. So he'll bring a lot of business to V1, I think. Yeah, I think doing like maybe an official kick partnership or something yeah that'd be cool yeah good on every video that'd be cool yeah official streaming pcs you know that'd be dope man but yeah the fact that you've been able to pivot like this is impressive because a lot of people like you said i remember when alienware was like the number one pc company when i was growing up and now there's just so much competition i don't even know if people still buy those as much but you'd be surprised i think they do uh but they have like mass market scale

when it comes to like best buy and walmart and those kind of big box stores so people who don't know yeah what to get it's a household brand at this point the low barrier of entry but definitely not like as competitive as some of the better built pcs by like origin pcs and you know um but yeah i was doing research when i went to buy my latest gaming pc and there were so many different opinions on like what the best one was do you have a favorite gaming pc brand um if you have like a three thousand dollar budget three thousand dollar budget i think origin pc is right now okay yeah so i saw that on some lists they're really good so i know the owner his name is kevin and we've collaborated on some new stuff where we're doing

limited edition uh fully custom designed art art like pcs uh so you can actually get one right now where it's limited run and it's about 3,500, but it's like, or fully maxed out. Wow. With a unique art that's only going to be available for a limited time. That's cool. I'll look into that.

Yeah. Because dude, every website was different. It was crazy. And I don't know what list to trust these days because a lot of these guys pay for list spots. Right. On those top 10 lists. 100%. So it's like, like dude what do i trust like i think uh if you're local to one of the pc uh building companies or you know somebody um that's going to be your best bet because uh troubleshooting

and the customer service and the being able to like have it serviced i think that's more valuable than the actual initial like having it built part of it. Yeah, that makes sense. My first one was CyberPowerPC. Then I switched to Zydex. Do you know Zydex? Yeah, out in Utah. Yeah, my buddy Dan Young owns that one.

Very cool. I'll connect you guys. It's pretty good, but now that I'm playing Fortnite pretty heavily, I need to up it. Yeah, so you want one from me, huh? I might have to go bougie with you, man'll build something amazing that'd be sick um you also made one for pbd um patrick bet david no so patrick actually at one point was like low-key my mentor really yeah so he was based in dallas Addison, really close to where I was.

And at one point he had a mentorship competition where you just enter a video and introduce yourself. And Mario reached out to me and was like, hey, love the video. Patrick wants to meet. We're going to have this dinner with a bunch of entrepreneurs. And so I went over to his place, checked out like the whole wall of books and got to meet him, got to, got to dinner. And since then we had a few like, you know,

mentorship calls and meetings every now and then. But the biggest takeaway was kind of like, we have totally different experiences running. Like he has an insurance business. I have a computer business that's unlike anything that's normal out there. It's not a franchise or a been-done-before thing. So nobody really has that experience to be able to tell you exactly what you need to do. So the best mentorship that I've gotten is just read books because you get a lifetime of experience kind of like in sound bites of like three hours or less.

Right. And that's super impactful. from other entrepreneurs and other experiences and try to apply them but being flexible and improv-y with how you do things and getting better at like just feeling things out and understanding your market is really gonna be up to you like there's nobody in a lot of spaces like that i'm in that you can really just have a mentor for right yeah i'm big on audiobooks and podcasts actually i listen to those 100 2x speed yeah while i'm driving i'm 1.25 i'm not quite that good i will say 2x is probably a bit ambitious for most people i had to work my way up there's some books that if they're a little bit too detailed like um i just read one by uh it's how to buy back your time oh is that uh dan martell martell

yeah he's come on the show amazing guy yeah love him and i've been watching his stuff before i think anyone really knew who he was super valuable um person and that book i actually got a physical version and audible because i like to be able to like take notes and highlight. Right. And if it's a really in-depth book, it's better for me that way. Anyway, I'm going to listen to that one now that you've said that. So good.

Yeah. He came on the show. Funny story. He thought I was a different Sean Kelly. What? So he pulled up to the studio. I walk him in. He has no idea I'm interviewing him.

He's like, wow, you're way better looking you lost a ton of weight you're taller he's been friends with another sean kelly for over 20 years wow yeah who's that guy he owns this company called snack nation which provides snacks to companies that's corporations but funny guy that's how much time he saves he doesn't even know what podcast he's going on what funny dude what are some time saving hacks, though, that you remember from that book? The biggest one for me was how to manage my personal assistant. OK, so like before there was a lot of things that I was still doing that he brought to light that I shouldn't be doing. For example um i would still field all the inbox for my email and uh then delegate it to whoever and then have her help me with it a little bit right but she wasn't like the direct

person in the email and so now i don't get to look at the email until after it's been vetted got it yeah so like that's been a huge hack that could probably save an hour a day alone a lot yeah because i get so much weird email like like spam stuff that I just delete, but it takes time to sort through it. That's a good one. What about your DMs? Do you have someone in there? Personal Instagram is the best place to reach me, actually.

Yeah. Because that's when I actually manage myself. That's how I... The V1 Tech. Yeah, the V1 Tech one is managed by a few people, but it's more like our customer service team our marketing team and a little bit of me yeah um but yeah that's cool yeah that's how i got hold of you yeah for sure i saw i think steve posted you steve will do it yeah yeah that

pc looks sick by the way thank you so the story of how i met steve is pretty cool yeah let's hear it um so john shahidi when they launched launched the Metacard back in the NFT space, I was really into crypto and NFTs and everything. And I lost a lot of money doing it. But it's paid off tenfold because of the relationships. Facts. So the thing with the NFT community is you were buying into a community. And that one was a big one.

John Shahidi, the Full Sun guys, all amazing people. And so I got the red card, the biggest one. And he actually, you know, reached out on Twitter and was like, hey, thank you so much. And you guys are awesome. We're going to be doing a tour in Dallas. We're going to launch a happy dad there and do like this cool party and I want you to come. And I was I want to build Steve a PC I know he is really into gaming I've been

following him for a long time and I just want to gift him one and we're going to make it happy dad thing so he was like hell yeah you know we'll introduce and it'll be cool so I built it like last minute took it to the party, gifted to them. Everyone saw, everyone freaked out, loved it. They even shared it on all the social medias. I got to meet Sammy, the CEO of Happy Dad. I got to meet, you know, all the Full Sun guys. And now I'm really good friends with Steve.

Nice. So from there it escalated to, hey, I need a pc for this condo and that house and and then his friends uh bradley's a big customer now yep oh we're about to do the raw talk pc for him oh selena selena's pcs she's a huge gamer too is she yeah i didn't know that she's actually i would say probably a better gamer than than steve yeah If you're watching this, Steve, you got put on blast right there. I don't know if I could date a girl that was better than me at gaming, man. I got too much pride in my games. I think she would kill you at Fortnite.

No. 100%. Dude, I'm nasty. She has a Fortnite-themed PC that I created for her for Christmas. It's all purple and everything. But she is a savage. Does she play Build and no build both okay i'd love to see it i mean i'll look up her kdr after this she's awesome okay that's that's

pretty wild i'd be intimidated generally like uh she's told me like all the things she has her cars and everything like the thing she looks forward to the most is going and sitting down at her computer the one that i built the setup and just gaming wow that's awesome man yeah that's really cool to see your work yeah change someone's big gamers yeah that's cool to see like you put your hard work into that device and it's making her that fulfilled 100 must be a great feeling absolutely yeah not many people can have that skill to do that to someone yeah i like um i like knowing that you know steve his his wife they're gaming on computers that i built but then other people too so that brings me a lot of fulfillment and joy into putting into the project um for ufc 300 i'm going to be gifting dana white a howlerhead pc yo i can't wait to

see that that's sick so it's gonna can't wait to see that. That's sick. So it's going to be pretty inspiring to know that potentially he's doing work or something. Maybe even gaming or his kids on the PC that I built. And so that's definitely a motivator for me. That's awesome. Are you bringing it to the fight? Are you going to? Yeah.

Wow, that's going to be heavy. Well, I actually deliver all the pcs for my friends uh personally in pelican cases nice so i'll drain the liquid actually sometimes i'll buy it a seat on the plane oh wow yeah wild so it'll be me and a computer sitting next to me you don't trust everyone's reactions are like this is hilarious yeah i don't really trust them to throw it in hell no i've seen videos of them just throwing those suitcases. Yeah, that shit would break. I remember I was big into sports cards. I bought like, I spent a hundred grand on sports cards.

Really? Yeah, in Pennsylvania. Some random guy I met online. And I was like, I don't trust this being shipped. You know what I mean? Yeah, you gotta take it with you. Because it literally was worth so much. So I bought the seat next to me and the seat next to me.

So I bought the whole row on the plane. Just for for your because they were huge cases of cards wow and people were like what the hell that's amazing yeah so i could relate to that it's funny dude um anything you got coming up what's next what are you excited about um i mean that's a big one the the fight got the show at the end of the month. Right now, there's a lot of stuff on the company end. We're going to be moving to a new headquarters soon. Nice. Getting to different equipment, new products.

Yeah, a lot of cool drops coming up on our website, v1tech.com. The whole thing this weekend with Sumi is we're going to be launching a platform for anyone to sell their actual photos on a premium product uh so if you want to do like really cool photography or even just influencer photos cosplay photos um we're just gonna keep expanding our market and continue to help people express themselves and customize their world love it we'll link the site below thanks for coming on man of course thank Sean. Look forward to seeing a PC. Hell yeah. All right, guys. See you next time.