In this episode, Mark Hall and Dr. Walter Kemmsies discuss the importance of Developing Business Relationships.
Excerpt, Mark Hall: A lot of what we do is simply building relationships, and the one of the things that we've been talking a lot about lately is being relational rather than transactional. A lot of things, you just you can't hurry, and if you try to, then it really reveals the intent. That is just 'get on with the transaction'. Whatever it is, at the end of the day, a long term relationship with somebody and to have a business history with somebody, you just spent time with them.

In this episode, Mark Hall and Dr. Walter Kemmsies discuss their predictions for 2025.

Excerpt: We as a market with 330 million people, but the real middle class is in Asia. It's in Africa and Latin America, other underdeveloped countries. That's where the 4 billion strong middle class is really centered. Apple is making phones in India. Tesla is also making cars in India. The future is India. India just opened a new container terminal to the south of Mama Shiva and they're improving the infrastructure, which was the other part of that Indian development. Folks don't bet against India.

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Mark: About a month ago, we were investigating the context of some of the work we were doing in Africa with our with our nonprofit, I was talking with my daughter about a long range project of getting the background on every country on the continent of Africa in terms of political stability. I just threw it out there, let's gather this information maybe over the next couple of months. Well, the next morning, she sent me a report and she had used ChatGPT. Obviously there were gaps but the fact that we had a framework from which to work in a matter of minutes rather than months was amazing.

Walter: But here's the scary part. What was missing in that report? You don't know exactly. There were things that you could see, and then there were things you couldn't see. Then some of the information was just inaccurate. But to get you started, man it's a great tool in that sense.