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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.

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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 Infinime. What's up, brother? It's all good, man. Thanks for having me. My pleasure. Glad you're here. I know it's tough here enjoying such a terrible environment, right? Exactly. Sunshine, mountains, nice weather. I know. It's been a great event, though.

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

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a little bit just to get you to let you know. You don't see the gray hairs here but. I got a few in my eye. Okay. 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 I actually helped build a couple of VAR resellers out there. Some of them are pretty large,

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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. I built multi-international professional services teams in the 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,

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We did a big acquisition and they said, okay, we're gonna give you six months, new management's coming into the organization, we're gonna 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 gonna bring your own soldiers. But I reached a pivotal and I had to make a decision, I said, do I really wanna go back and work for Corporate America, or do I really want to take that entrepreneurial butt that's been inside me for years and years and years

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something with it. So I decided to do the latter and go back and explore entrepreneurship and I actually bought a software development firm. Nice. So how long have we been going at this? It's been three and a half years now. Okay great. If you're here it must be going pretty well. It is. It's going pretty good. I mean we have a little ups and downs with it but like exactly and you 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.

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you 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. Like I spent 17 years working for other people, you know, and learning in the add agency business before, you know, I feel like I always had the spirit for entrepreneurism, but, you know, I kind of learned under the tutelage of others for a while before starting. Is that, am I interpreting that path?

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100% on the right track. Yeah. Did that do you feel like you learned? You know, like you had it, obviously, we'll get into the pitfalls, the good, the bad and the ugly. We want to keep this real on the Radcast. But, but.

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It did have to help, right? Because they helped me. Like I watched and paid attention to what was going on and certainly nothing is as real until you own it yourself, but it helped, right? Oh, 100%, absolutely. Yeah. Absolutely. Did you feel like...

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did it teach you anything about people? Because for me, it taught me, I mean, you always want to treat your people well, but like, I learned a lot about like, 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. Yeah. Was that a similar experience for you? 100%. 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, your chances, your risk is reduced that you don't make the mistakes. But you're right.

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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. 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? Mm-hmm, great question. So what we do is we're a information technology business consulting firm. And what we do is we work with

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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 are 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

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I'll use a basic example that everybody understands, a big franchise like McDonald's, they may have X amount of thousands of units across the United States, they will say, hey look, we're gonna work with Infinivate, 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

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the capital and that and how that extra expenditure to go out there and actually fix whatever problems you may have. That makes a lot of sense and smart in today's environment you know like you you mitigate risk it sounds like you know of taking on you know that responsibility and that maybe long-term commitment to just maybe a short-term need. Absolutely. Am I interpreting correctly? You're right you're 100% spot-on. That's great so we're three and

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What's been the biggest surprise or a-ha of being an entrepreneur or owning your own thing and kind of being the big boss? 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.

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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. And I would say that one of the biggest ah-hahs 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 of 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.

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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 like 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.

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I can see artificial intelligence, machine learning, and even deep learning becoming some of the thing that's gonna happen very soon. So what I wanna 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 ask you what's what I'm looking for.

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have to waste money and waste time to do what they have to do. So kind of like you 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 they paying points? What are they looking to do? And our job is like in our name, Infinite Innovation, which is coming together to inform Infinivate. So we actually come to our clients and say what

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and ask you to give you that competitive edge in the future.

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What inspired, give me something that made you who you are. What inspired you? I don't know, I just like your spirit, I like your energy, but I feel like there's something, give me something that kinda 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, very, very little money. And I think that when you actually grow up, and you actually in a situation where you have little,

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what you have. And when 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 or 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 actually continue to work.

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every day. That's cool man, that's cool. 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.infinityvate.com but I also have a personal page out there too, it's mohamilton, mo hamilton and that they can go to on Instagram and on just a regular website address and they can look up the information

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at you look at some of the accolades and some of the achievements that I've done over my over the years. Do your friends call you Mo? They do.

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All right, I'm gonna call you Mo. Okay. You know, it's kind of funny because my initials are Maurice O. Hamilton, although it stands for city Orlando. So it actually is befitting to say Mo. Yes, your initials, right? Exactly, exactly. Hey, y'all go check out Mo Hamilton and everything he's doing with it. 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?

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