Right About Now with Ryan Alford - Infinite Possibilities for Innovation with Maurice Hamilton - a Think Billions Experience Guest

Episode Date: November 29, 2022

In today’s episode, The Radcast is on the road at “The Castle” in Palm Desert California, the home of Billion Dollar Brand builder Howard Panes as part of the Think Billions Experience series.Ryan welcomes Maurice Hamilton, the Founder and CEO of Infinavate. Ryan talks with Mo about his entrepreneurial journey and how he is transforming enterprises with innovative technology that elevates profitability, security, and efficiency.Maurice's entrepreneurial journey has been full of challenges and successes, and he has always been driven to find better ways to do things. His passion for innovation has led him to create some of the most groundbreaking technology in the industry, and his products are helping businesses around the world reach new levels of performance!Key notes from the episode:Mo shares how he started off in software development for multi-billion dollar corporations and what inspired him to start Infinavate (01:15)Learning what to do and what not to do along the journey is very important and emphasis in building strong relationships (03:51)Infinavate’s mission, how they work, and their market - they provide IT solutions and to different business problems. Infinavate mitigates risks  (05:04)The importance of picking the right people for each role to get to the next business level - Mo being a futurist (06:50)Mo shares how he was able to set and build his legacy (09:17)This episode is packed with great advice and we know you will get a ton of value from the Think Billions Experience Guest lineup. The Think Billions Experience was developed by Howard Panes who assembled a group of the most notable multi-million and billion-dollar brand builders in the business, making the Think Billions Experience one of the highest net worth events of 2022. Learn more about future events at https://events.thinkbillions.com/ or follow Howard on Instagram - https://instagram.com/howardpanesTo keep up with Mo, follow him on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/mauricehamilton/ or Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mohamiltonofficial/Learn more by visiting our website at www.theradcast.comSubscribe to our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/RadicalHomeofTheRadcastIf you enjoyed this episode of The Radcast, Like, Share, and leave us a review! If you enjoyed this episode and want to learn more, join Ryan’s newsletter https://ryanalford.com/newsletter/ to get Ferrari level advice daily for FREE.  Learn how to build a 7 figure business from your personal brand by signing up for a FREE introduction to personal branding https://ryanalford.com/personalbranding.  Learn more by visiting our website at www.ryanisright.comSubscribe to our YouTube channel  www.youtube.com/@RightAboutNowwithRyanAlford. 

The hardest part of ending is starting again. You're listening to the Radcast. If it's radical, we cover it. Here's your host, Ryan Alford. Hey guys, what's up? Welcome to the latest edition of the Radcast. I'm Ryan Alford, your host. We're still here at the Think Billions event

in this terrible weather. If you're watching the video, it's gorgeous. And we're meeting some of the best and brightest entrepreneurs on the planet, including my good friend Maurice Hamilton, founder and CEO of Infinimate. What's up, brother? It's all good, man. Thanks for having me. My pleasure. Glad you're here. I know it's tough, you know, here enjoying such a terrible environment, right?

Exactly. Sunshine, mountains, nice weather. I know. It's been, you know, here enjoying such a terrible environment, right? Exactly. Sunshine, mountains, nice weather. I know. It's been a great event, though. It has been. A lot of quality people. I mean, I've done several of these things. I wouldn't say I'm on the circuit, but I've done a lot.

This has been, like, the quality of the people, including yourself, just classy and just really, I don't know, good spirit. I agree. Good energy. Yep, top of. I agree. Good energy. Yep, top of the food chain here. Exactly. Maurice, let's talk Infinivate and your background. Let's give everybody a little taste for kind of your journey. Sure, absolutely.

I'm going to date myself here a little bit just to get you, let you know. You don't see the gray hairs here, but. I got a few of mine, but it's been a while. When I actually started off in software development, we use mainframes and we had to use card punch readers and we had to feed that information to a system and wait hours before you got the data output back. So I started off doing software development and actually helped build a couple of VAR resellers out there. Some of them are pretty large, multi-billion dollar corporations, but I've been doing it for many decades now.

Love it, man. So then what was the inspiration with Infinivate then? You know, so I actually went out there and I looked at all I did for the companies that I worked for. And I looked at all I did for the companies that I worked for. I built multi-international professional services teams in Philippines and Toronto and Costa Rica. And I actually sat down one day and said, you know what, well, I should back it up for a second. One of my really big corporate jobs, we did a big acquisition. And they said, okay, we're going to give you six months. New management is coming into the organization. We're going to wish you well but we just need to make some changes here

which i totally understood new management comes in they bring their own staff in i said i get that you're going to bring your own soldiers sure but i i reached a pivotal and i had to make a decision i said do i really want to go back and work for corporate America, or do I really want to take that entrepreneurial, uh, bud that's been inside me for years and years and years and actually do something with it. So I decided to do the latter and go back and explore entrepreneurship. And I actually, I bought a software, a development firm. Nice. So how long, how long have we, uh, been going at this? It's been three and a half years now. Okay, great. And, uh, if you're here, it must be going pretty well. It is.

It's going pretty good. I mean, we have a lot of ups and downs with it. Like every company. Exactly. And there are a lot of long hours. It's not easy. People say you can go out there and do an eight-hour day. No, that's corporate America.

Here you're working 16, 18, sometimes 20 hours a day, seven days a week. But the reward that you get working and building organizations is self-fulfilling. So that's what I enjoy. It sounds like you had a similar path that I did. I spent 17 years working for other people and learning in the ad agency business. Before, I feel like I always had the spirit for entrepreneurism, but I kind of learned under the tutelage of others for a while before starting is that am I interpreting

that path you're 100 on the right track yeah uh did that do you feel like you learned you know like you had it obviously you uh we'll get into the the the pitfalls the good the bad and the ugly we want to keep this real on the radcast but but it did have to help right because they helped me like i watched and paid attention to what was going on and and certainly nothing is as real until you own it yourself but it helped right oh 100 absolutely yeah absolutely did you feel like um did it teach you anything about people because for me it it taught me i mean you always want to treat your people well, but I learned a lot about, okay, what I would do and what I wouldn't do.

I might have learned about more of what I wanted to not do. Sorry about that. Was that a similar experience for you? A hundred percent. And I like how you mentioned that because when you look at it, you say, I've learned what not to do. And when you learn what not to do. And when you learn what not to do, your chances, your risk is reduced that you don't make the mistakes. But you're right. I

mean, working in corporate America, working with the people, it's all about relationships, you know. And those relationships that I built up working in corporate America, I've actually taken that and actually put a stronger, even stronger emphasis on building relationships even today. put a stronger, even stronger emphasis on building relationships even today. Love it. Smart man. Talk to me, let's get the nitty gritty, exactly what Finovate does and for who, like who is your typical client? A great question. So what we do is we're a information technology business consulting firm. And what we do is we work with chief technology officers, chief security officers, chief information officers, and we

actually do one of two things for them. One, we'll supply developers, for example, to augment or add to their staff so they don't have to go back out there with the people that they're bringing on. They don't have to bring on additional W-2 employees, have their burden cost to go with it, and so we augment their staff. And the second thing we do is we actually provide managed services for clients. So if you can imagine, for example, like I'll use a basic example that everybody understands, like a big franchise like McDonald's, they may have X amount of, you know, thousands of units across the United States. They will say, hey, look, we're going to work with Infinovate. We need you guys to go out to this particular center in this particular city at this particular

time and actually fix our data center, fix something that's actually with our network. So we actually provide solutions for our clients and solve problems for them so that they don't have to have to build up the capital and have that extra expenditure to go out there and actually fix whatever problems they may have. That makes lot of sense and smart uh in today's environment you know like you you mitigate risk it sounds like you know of of taking on you know that responsibility and that maybe long-term commitment to just maybe a short-term need absolutely absolutely interpreting correctly you're right you're 100 spot on That's great. So we're three and a half years in. What's been the biggest surprise or aha of being an entrepreneur or owning your own thing and kind of being, you know, the big boss?

You know, I would say the biggest surprise is actually when you have that capital and you get that budget in corporate America and say, here's what your salary expense budget is for the next fiscal year for, let's say, for this particular case next year. I don't have that luxury right now because you have to bootstrap everything you have. You have to be very, very picky about who you select, make sure you're selecting the right person for that particular role. about who you select, make sure you're selecting the right person for that particular role. And I would say that one of the biggest ahas is actually making sure that we get the right people that can actually fit those positions, what we're looking for, in order to get to the next level, what we want to achieve.

Yeah. Where do you want to be? Like, where are you going? Where's this, like, you know, like, you seem ambitious. You have a quiet confidence about you. You know, I talk to a lot of people. There's just kind of this, I don't sense a lot of blips here, like emotionally up, emotionally down.

I feel like you're kind of navigating really calmly towards something, but we're going towards something. Right, absolutely. And I'm actually one of those people, some people call them futurists or some people say you're ahead of your time. I actually do believe that our society and the world would actually lean more towards blockchain technology in the near future. I could see artificial intelligence, machine learning and even deep learning becoming some of the thing that's going to happen very soon. So what I want to do is actually get to a certain level so we can actually work with our clients

and we can develop specialized applications for them to actually help them with their decision making, help them hire the right people by using something like artificial intelligence, for example, and we can just help them get to the next level so they don't have to go out there and actually, what's what I'm looking for? They don't have to waste money and waste time to do what they have to do.

Kind of like you've become the R&D, in a way, for that sort of technology. Absolutely. Absolutely. And we do that now because we actually have deep conversations with our clients, and we find out what's important to them. What are their pain points? What are they looking to do? And our job is, like in our name, Infinite Innovation,

which is coming together to inform, innovate, effinovate. So we actually come to our clients and say, what can we do that's going to be innovative for you that's going to actually give you that competitive edge in the future? What inspired you? Give me something that made you who you are. What inspired you? I don't know.

I just like your spirit, and I like your energy, but I feel like there's something, like give me something that kind of molded you. You know, that's really another great question. So I go back and look at my life and I look at all the downs. I mean, we grew up, we didn't have any, you know, very, very little money.

And I think that when you actually grow up and you actually in a situation where you have little, you learn how to maximize what you have. And I've actually looked at that and said, what can I do to actually push myself every single day? I wake up every day and say, what can I do different and better today than I did the previous day? And I think that that is actually so instilled in the back of my brain where I push myself every single day to do something better, something different the next day so I can continuously, little baby steps at a time, to push myself towards doing something different, innovative, that people will remember me.

So I'm setting the legacy as I continue to work every day. That's cool, man. That's cool. Thank you. Can everybody learn more about you, learn more about the business, and keep up with everything or they want to reach out? Well, absolutely. So we can always go back into our website, www.infinivate.com. But I also have a personal page out there too.

It's M.O. Hamilton, Mo Hamilton, and that they can go to on Instagram and just a regular website address. Yep. And they can look up the information. So they can actually look at some of the accolades and some of the achievements that I've done over the years. Do your friends call you Moe? They do. They do.

All right. I'm going to call you Moe. Okay. You know, it's kind of funny because my initials are Maurice O. Hamilton, Orlando. Like the city of Orlando. Yeah. So it actually is befitting to say Mo. Yeah, it's your initials, right?

Exactly. Exactly. Hey, y'all go check out Mo Hamilton and everything he's doing with Innovate. Such a pleasure to have you on, man. It's been a great pleasure having me here, and I really appreciate that. You having me here, I should say. Absolutely. Hey, guys, you know where to find us the radcast.com search

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