The Internet Company He Birthed at Age 15 Is Thriving 24 Years Later
Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love
Don Hutcheson
5.0 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Jeff Hall started working at age 7 doing door-to-door candy sales to help support his family. The company he founded in 1995 at age 15—Overflow Café—to help companies grow their websites, is thriving 23 years later. He has supported over 200 successful Kickstarter projects and has helped build 14 orphanages around the world. In his spare time he loves watching Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead and having a good cup of tea. You'll find him working hard, and sometimes goofing around, in Toronto, Canada.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, world, welcome to discover your talent, do what you love. |
| 0:14.8 | I'm your host, Don Hutchison. |
| 0:16.7 | Every Monday and Wednesday, I interview someone around the world who's discovered their talents to do work they love to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom. |
| 0:27.7 | On Fridays, I interview a well-known expert from the fields of personal or business development who share experiences, tools, and insights to help our listeners along their journeys. In honor of the |
| 0:38.9 | four-year anniversary of our podcast, over the next several weeks, we will be sharing with you |
| 0:44.3 | the most popular interviews from our first 77 shows. We hope you enjoy them, and we look forward to |
| 0:51.7 | sharing the journeys of more fascinating guests soon. |
| 0:55.2 | So fast forward to when I was 15, I said, you know, I'm good at this and why don't I just |
| 1:00.7 | do this since I'm so good at it. I, by the way, didn't have a computer, didn't have a computer. |
| 1:05.7 | I would have to use other people's computers until I was able to afford, I think it was like |
| 1:10.7 | December of 1995, I was |
| 1:12.4 | finally able to afford my own computer. I got a nice used computer. And then the company really took |
| 1:18.3 | off because I had, you know, access to the right tools. My first customer was a kung fu school. |
| 1:25.1 | I'd be let it bring you our featured guest, Jeff Hall. |
| 1:28.1 | Welcome, Jeff. |
| 1:29.3 | Thank you so much, John. |
| 1:30.8 | Jeff, are you using your talents doing work that you love? |
| 1:34.1 | Most of the time. |
| 1:35.6 | All right. |
| 1:36.2 | Well, we want to hear about that most of the time. |
| 1:38.4 | Jeff has a 23 years of business experience and has supported over 200 successful Kickstarter projects. |
| 1:45.6 | He started working at the age of seven doing door-to-door candy sales to support his family. |
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