Jeffrey McKinnon - After Hours Entrepreneur Transcript

Mallory Kassoy44min

Mark Savant

00:00

Welcome back action takers. My name is Mark this the app errors entrepreneur and today we're joined by Jeff McKinnon. He is the co founder and CO CEO of the.com. And today's episode is all about web design. It's about building out a website that works different innovations in the field. And Jeff's story, we get a little bit technical, but Jeff's story is, I think, really important, his journey from college to entrepreneurship, cutting lawns at 15, and how that has impacted what he's doing now raising capital. And I think the importance of automation. I've been really seriously thinking about automation across all different forms and websites. And that's really what my business podcast producing is all about. It's how do I automate more. And I think that as we move into this web three world is we implement new technology, new AI, automation is so important. So I really hope that you enjoy this episode with Jeff today. Sit back, relax. We're gonna learn a little bit about web design best practices, and how to automate more. I think you're gonna love this wet this episode with Jeff super inspirational, very impressive, dude. Let's get into this episode. DJ. Ron, let's say. Yo, Jeff, welcome to show.

Jeffrey McKinnon

01:14

Thanks for having me, Mark.

Mark Savant

01:16

Yeah, Jeff pleasures, all mine super cool business, by the way that you built. And I can't wait to talk a little bit more about the.com how it automates website building why that's important. But I want to go back in time, I want to start it's all the after hours, entrepreneurs understand we all start somewhere. So take me back to take me back. Jeff, take me back to your first business age 15. What did that look like? Oh, I had a couple when I was 15 had to have the lawn mowing side hustle. That was number one. If you could afford a lawn more, your dad had one that he'd let you borrow and used on 20 other people's lawns without killing you. You're doing all right. I always did that stuff. I think those early days, I also got in trouble at school for slinging Pokemon cards, honestly. And they were threatening to suspend me because I was making money at it. And they're like, you can't be selling stuff to other students. That's good. So Char zardes.

Jeffrey McKinnon

02:06

Oh, yeah. And they weren't even real cards. I was like printing out photos, just super high res photos of the cards pretty much. And people were that was like back when I'm not that old. I'm 32. But it's back when super high res like photo printing was just coming out. And my dad was an entrepreneur as well. And we were able to have some really nice equipment at the house from his business. So because he worked from home, my brother and I who co founded the company with me, we both had little businesses like that. That's awesome.

Mark Savant

02:37

I'm curious, do you do your dad? Did he like really push you into the entrepreneurial type of endeavors? Or do you say hey, you got to go to college, you got to get a job. How did he guide your way to becoming an entrepreneur Jeff?

Jeffrey McKinnon

02:47

Yeah, he did not at all push us anywhere. He was a hippie love the Grateful Dead. He still is and still does. And he always asked us he always just let us do whatever we wanted in terms of Goby, founder, go work in finance, go do something and keep cutting lawns if you want. Like, that's the whatever he was very much so and still is a person that just wants us to be happy. So, but my brother and I, Clark and I had crazy drive, we had a family of entrepreneurs. And he did well. And our grandfather was able to move up from the mailroom to CEO and the whole floor of the Chrysler Building in New York. And so technically not an entrepreneur, but when you think about it, so we just had that drive to follow in our father's is in our grandfather's footsteps.

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