So when I was 16 you could call me lazy and my mom was getting sick of the fact that she had to drive me everywhere and wanted me to go find my car.

So she gave me a piece of advice and she said,

whenever you're trying to do something, just tell everyone what you're trying to do,

because you never know who's going to have a connection for you. Well, because I was lazy,

I didn't do that, but because she wanted me out of the house and

have my own car, she did take her own advice and did that and posted a notice up in, she worked

at a middle school, up in the teacher's room,, you know where the copier is and everything like that.

She posted notice that said, my son is looking for a car.

Is anyone looking to sell a car?

Less than 24 hours later, it led me to the best purchase of my life because for $125 I was able to purchase,

which I dubbed Civico Magnificico, my very first car.

That car lasted me for seven years.

It took me all up and down the East Coast

and it was a car that I was able to learn stick shift on.

It's my very first vehicle. all because my mom told people what I was trying to do.

Well, fast forward about 25 years and thankfully I'm not as lazy and I understand that I should always take advice from my mom.

And so when I had this epiphany that I wanted to 3D print hotels

and that was going to lead us to this big mission of how high-end hospitality was going to help solve the

affordable housing crisis. I started telling everyone. I started saying this is

what I want to do and here's the company that I think could do this, ICON

they're in Austin Texas, you know someone would come up to

me say oh Trav how it's going and I'd be like for five minutes about my my new

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