Hello and welcome.

My name is Gino Barbera, one of the co-founders of Jake Ingeno.

And on this episode, I am welcoming a fellow Paizan.

Another one this week, Alex San Felipe.

Today's guest, he started the first company at age of these 10 years old, selling used golf balls he found in lakes and woods around this neighborhood golf course.

Now, Alex is the founder of Pod Pros.

The software company focused on elevating the voices of independent podcast hosts and their guests.

Without further ado, welcome to the show, Alex.

Gino, thanks so much for having me, man. I really appreciate it.

You're running around a little kid. What possessed you to go out, find golf balls and sell

golf balls? Because I did cans, by the way, so I'm a little bit older than you, but we were in the neighborhood. We were getting cans and recycled and bringing them. So I sell golf balls because I did I did I did cans by the way so I'm a little bit older than

you but we were around the neighborhood we were getting cans recycled than bringing them so I think

golf balls is a probably better probably a better venture I mean it's just a different time right

real quick what made you decide cans I'm just I'm totally curious because I thought I saw five cents

I'm like dude people are bringing them and they're just dropping them off all over the place. So me and my friends, we get plastic garbage bags, go around the neighborhoods, collect the cans and bring them and recycle them. Five cents back in the 80s was significant. You start getting 20 cans. You got a buck, you got a couple packs of gum. That's what my thought process was. I respect it. You know, I've been following what you

and what you and Jake do. And I think that just so well lines, you all see an opportunity that's like,

right in front of most of us, we're just like, how do we capitalize on this? You're like,

it says five cents right here. So grab it and return it. Like it's funny that it's followed you

through your whole life because I never thought about that, not once, but golf balls for me. I guess you could say my family kind of pushed me into it.

What I mean by that is my mom and dad had us living in a neighbor that was right across the street from a golf course.

And we had the same rule that all the kids in the neighborhood had, which was do not go on the golf course.

So, you know exactly where we ran to the second they let us outside.

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