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so guys in part 1i shared through the beginning part 2 technobuffalo and they continue the story in part two is too long to sort of put out in one giant video so if you didn't watch the first part put the link will annotate it and link will be down below but here is a continuation of the TechnoBuffalo story at the point where things were kind of at their lowest it was almost like a guardian angel on my shoulder I got an email I got an email from a guy named khalid bin al-walid and females and i remember i'll never forget it i was at a Shell station filling up with gas when it came through on my phone and it said quite simply I love the videos love what you do I like to try to be a part of technobuffalo so I went home and I did what you would have done I put his name into Google and what I saw I mean I first I told my wife I'm like I got this email she's like oh it's probably spam you know look all right but you know what I'm gonna reply anyway because what's the hard and replying I still read every single email it come into my inbox so I replied to this gentleman Khalid and I said you know thank you very much for interest you know let me you know I'd love to talk to you more about it so again I went home and put into Google and I realized he was a prince in Saudi Arabia and like my jaw drop I'm like this has got to be like a new version of punk or something like one of my friends that thought was going to come running out with the camera Ashton Kutcher with his trucker hat was going to come out but it wasn't then I asked him to sort of verify who he was I saw a picture of him online and we started talking and he and I talked for eight months about our visions for technobuffalo about our families about our histories and we really really really got to know each other you know me taking on a business partner I was scared that was nervous I didn't know him at all and I want to be very comfortable with him and him you know investing in a company at a person he didn't know me at all either you know and dealing with the Prince of Saudi Arabia it was sort of a little scary at the time so I got to know him as a person titles there any else aside and couldn't we had a lot in common and Khalid ended up becoming one of my closest friends and is still with my closest friends and he became a minority partner and technobuffalo and with that I got sort of a life get a lifetime friends and he again he and I talked for a long time and his initial investment in TechnoBuffalo helped us grow it helped us bring Sean on full time I helped us hire staff it help us open offices I helped us get access to things we wouldn't have access to before got us into events we have I had access to before and I just learned more about him and he learned more about me and you know sir just goes to show you you can ever you know you don't know anybody until you get to know them and you know I'll never forget him and his wife coming over to our house for dinner and her wise playing dance central on the Xbox and him and I just going upstairs and I think checking out all the phones i had in my college at the time it just it just goes to show you in life you never know what's going to come next and call it as sort of he's been quiet we haven't sort of talked about his involvement technobuffalo but i feel that i wasn't doing a service to sort of the great gift that he gave me and the gift that he gave the whole staff by believing in us so you should check him out i'll put all of his twitter and instagram information to right here so you can check him out say hi to him he loves talk about technology is a really good guy just a good human in a world where I don't know how many good humans are left but I he's he's one of the few and I'm proud to to call him a friend an even more excited to finally shared the news he sort of been quiet behind the scenes he's come to the almost a ton of times he's hung out with us at CES and million times and you know he's traveled to Geneva together and gone to kind of cool places my never had a chance to talk about him so I'll surf continue the story call it came on board and we started to technobuffalo started to grow and i realized i wasn't having as much time as I wanted this is still the case to do all the video work that I wanted to do and still try and run a company and this is still something I struggle with you know we probably put out now about a third of the video content we could and probably should because it's just me in addition to sort of doing all the revision three shows and all the other content I'm also running a business I'm negotiating all the contracts to go into our ad networks I mean it's it's a lot of work so you know we look to hire someone that help with the video work we brought on Noah crab its use with us for about a year a half and I'll never forget our first executive summit it was me Sean and Noah we flipped San Francisco whenever lives his son was just a little at a time and you know I didn't have any kids and Sean did not I figured you should have to travel and we talked about the road 22 and the road 22 is getting us to two million pageviews with the time seemed crazy we may be passed a million one time and we put together this plan and what content we were going to talk about and how we're going to try and be more the voice of the consumer and we're a teeny tiny little site I mean we weren't even like a fly on like the ass of a site like cnet or you know the sites that are owned by AOL or the other CBS sites but we believed in what we were doing Kyle believed in us and we had a vision we executed on it and we're able to sort of continue to grow and grow TechnoBuffalo and we serve did that by just trying to be the voice of the consumer and trying to utilize best SEO practices and always trying to be sort of honest and sort of on the up-and-up so to speak so you know Noah's gone gone his own way and we serve brought another video people but I still struggle with that same thing every day you know right now it's just me making video and it's tough you don't do nearly as much as we could and again as much as we should but you know we're trying we finally have an office what you guys have seen we're going to move into another office in October we're building out a whole new studio with sets and sort of up the professionalism we brought on you guys having that Jen Psaki meet him in person but we brought on a video editor in the form of Ron prieta who's you can really see the exact day he came on you can see the quality of the videos improved be able to hire incredible writers incredible video talent throughout the years and it's been incredible and I keep saying credible but that's how I feel to give people the opportunity to live their dreams and I feel so grateful that somebody believed in me and gave me the opportunity to live my dreams and that I am I have so much respect for that and it such a privilege to be able to give the rest TechnoBuffalo staff the chance to live their dreams and then this would have happened if call didn't believe in me now this what happened if the audience didn't care what I had to say I know this would have happened if the audience didn't give me a second chance I'm TechnoBuffalo crash and failed and I'll forever be grateful or that it was just it's it's an honor it's a privilege and this is not another script for this video I'm just talking from the heart so that's the story of TechnoBuffalo that's how we came to be if you're going through similar struggles in your life without starting a business or you're in school and you think things are at their worst and I can't get better I can tell you they will get better and they can get better just when you think things are at the darkest you might have that guardian angel sitting right there on your shoulder waiting to email you and waiting to say I believe in what you're doing no matter what it is so if you can take anything away from this mess this video let that be the message things can get better you can live your dreams you can fight for what you think is important and you could run a business your company or your life with the strong sort of moral principles and always with honesty and you can be successful now we're not nearly successful as I like TechnoBuffalo to be my goal is protecting a buffalo to be the largest consumer electronics portal in the world and that's including the giant sites we've only been around for you know again since 2009 2010 early it's not even that long we've already sort of grown we're not nearly where I want us to be we've got a lot of market share now but we don't have lot of my chair and I really want to grow and change n I love our independent spirit i love that we can try something new if it doesn't work didn't work we tried it I'm not beholden to a board of investors or anything we've had people inquire about trying to buy the site and I've sort of pushed it back so I like being independent I like being able to sit and talk with you guys and say what I want have to worry about anybody looking over my shoulder so that's a little story I hope for those you that sort of are the fans that wanted to hear this and watch I hope you enjoyed it's been just a privilege for me to be here and I plan on being here for many many many more years but i want to just to share the whole story of techno buffer with you guys and i hope you enjoyed until next time i'm jon rettinger see you guys next video what's up everyone thank you for watching that video if you want to see more the latest and greatest tech news you can subscribe to our main TechnoBuffalo channel by clicking the button right down below in my pants region or click on the buttons to your right to see more videos