Welcome to Office Hours episode 794 or so. We lost track, to be honest, and they started

just picking up to where they thought they left off. But more importantly, we are blessed to be

here with my mentor. Blaine Bartlett, he will move your possibilities into reality. He sure has

for me.

People ask me all the time, do you have a mentor?

I have at least three mentors at all time by subject matter, topic, and expertise,

and know what position I play within the context of that mentorship. But one of the best mentors in the world is playing art Artlet check about if you're looking for help,

especially in telecom and scaling your business.

Ironically, Blaine and I both circled the same lives in their early 90s and all through to today.

He was in my neighborhood at Nokia as I was at Samsung.

But today's guest is on the cutting edge of telecom. He's taken it through its landlines to cellular, now AI, and scaling

his company and keeping it connected and secure. It's an indispensable progress for all of us in the information age. If you're

utilizing our form for inform outside, the transform is, of course, inspiration. But let's talk

about today, GCH Technologies. Welcome George Cray to office hours.

Thank you. Happy to be here. We're happy to have you. You are looking at two guys that have

paid more dummy tax in the telecom industry than most. So that makes us semi-experts,

millions and millions of dollars through that. And let's talk about today's

speed of progress comparatively from we went from landlines to cellular. And now what we can do with

AI. Where are we, what we're talking about growth and speed with AI being in the mix.

Yeah, I think in general, the U.S., and it is the most complex telecommunications

country in the world.

It kind of didn't get help by the breakup of AT&T going back to, you know, 1984. And it's been just

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