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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Invest in Yourself, the Digital Entrepreneur Podcast. I am, of course, your host with the most feel better. And today, I'm happy because we have the CEO, founder, creative man of mystery himself of Stampede Social Wealth, Jeff Dowalski. Jeff, thank you so much for being here.

Great to be here. I like your name. It could make you feel better. It's safe. Yeah.

It's the whole thing. It's it's a whole marketing strategy. Went down a deep dive. I went actually went back in time to convince my my great great great great grandfather to change the name to Better so I could become Phil better. So, yeah, it was it's a lot it costs a lot of money, but that that was the, the thing, so I can earmark Phil Better, so everybody can feel better when they come on the show. So, Jeff, do you feel better?

Yeah. It's it's time to feel better.

There you go. There you go. Alright, Jeff. We already talked. We we talked about your podcast on my other show. So I know a bit about you. I know you showed me Stampede Social. I was blown away.

But I want you to introduce my, yours you to my audience currently, the entrepreneurial group. So please let us know a bit about yourself.

Sure. I consider myself somewhat of a digital entrepreneur. I, little background, late nineties, I had one of the very first, Internet development companies, in Michigan, at least. And it was acquired by a company called US Web. Phil is late nineties when the web was first emerging, and it was all the rage. So we rode that, dotcombomb, if you will.

You you have the boom and you're at the bomb.

The boom and the bomb. You know, there was days on e trade where I'm like, I just made more money than everyone I know. Oh, I just lost more money. So that was fun. Anyway, so we we built websites for, a lot of great companies and we were I mean, just to give you an idea, if you if you even remember, we're at the, flash technology. Remember that's not even around anymore? You it was we Phil stuff with with it when it was called active x before Adobe even bought it. Yeah. I've got

Jeez. That's legacy OG. That's legacy OG.

Oh, yeah. It's, it's, I have, Photoshop in my basement before it was Adobe. It's like

Dang. You you go home.

All this page make all this page maker and all this Photoshop in my basement in the box on floppy disks. Things used to come in floppy disk, guys.

You're blowing these people's minds.

Yeah. Oh my god. Yeah. It's funny when you think back on stuff. I remember when I had a ZipDesk, they came out, they did Zip Drive. 100 mag, a 100 mag. You're like, holy cow.

That's so

much. 100 mag on one thing. Insane. Insane. My life is so much better now. It's so much better. I don't even think like one of the test files or I'm editing Podcast. It's like a gig.

It's like it's like it's crazy. So so, yeah, we, back then in late nineties, we were doing some pretty cool cutting edge stuff with, happen to have a real brilliant IT person who was building databases that you could update on the fly, which now sounds like, Jeff, I I do that all the time. But back then, it was wasn't a thing, yeah, back then. And so, so we did the, and I had some corporate jobs in Better. But the, there was a time where I built an app called hashtag roundup from 2015 till January of 2023. It kinda ruled Twitter with these hashtag games, call and response games. Trended over 8,000 hashtags in the United States, worked with brands. They did hashtag, engagement exercises with us.