Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.

Future Technologies is to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast.

Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used.

Or just around the corner, for Bitcoin to artificial intelligence,

3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.

Hello everyone and welcome to Future Tech Podcast. I'm your host Julia Lamarr and

joining us today is Jeff

Kottalano he is the founder of Port Token and Payment Port. We're very

excited to have him on. Welcome Jeff. Thank you so much Julia. It's a pleasure to join you. So let's dive in a little bit because you have such a rich and exciting history and journey through this space. Give us a little bit of background about yourself.

Sure, sure.

Well, I'm definitely a serial entrepreneur.

I started very young in the apparel and accessory market.

I was a designer and learned about manufacturing, importing and branding very young and apparel.

And I learned as an entrepreneur to wear many hats. I'm used to wearing many hats in company development,

save money, develop skills.

And over the course of my first projects,

definitely built knowledge in certain areas

as business strategies, sales, distribution, licensing, real estate, retail environment,

e-commerce, marketing, just goes on and on.

The takeaway from the first part of my career was that you can be an entrepreneur, you can be a dreamer,

you can start from scratch with little or no capital and believe in your vision.

And with perseverance, what's what in tears, you can achieve anything to desire.

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