The Jimmy Rex Show #35 - Dan Young - Founder of PC Laptops; Be Crazy Enough to Know You Can Do Anything You Want in Life
Mar 14, 2018
44:21
Dan (“The Laptop Man”) Young, is the founder and president of Utah based PC Laptops LLC. PC Laptops currently makes the best custom-configured, computers and laptops on the planet all covered by a lifetime service guarantee. www.pclaptops.com.
Born in 1971 and raised in Southern California, Young is a first-generation American. His parents emigrated from China to the United States in the late 1930s to escape repression and the early throes of World War II. At age six, Young began attending a computer-training camp established by a benefactor—a person he only remembers as “Charles”—for underprivileged children. He was trained on PC and Apple II+ computers, initially learning video game programming and development. He played video games, wrote video games and did a lot of hacking in his free time.
His first entrepreneurial efforts selling T-shirts, sunglasses and novelty items from a stand-in Venice Beach, California proved fun and lucrative. Dan’s business progressed and he opened a small shop at the outdoor swap meet selling cutlery in his Samurai costume.
After moving to Utah, the big box electronics retailer he was working for closed their doors, Young called all the customers that had bought computers from him and sent former customers a letter offering to honor their extended service warranties. The first year he lost $20,000, but the following year Young’s loyal customers earned him several hundred thousand dollars in net profit.
Young has now driven his company to consecutive listings among the fastest growing companies in America in Inc. Magazine. Since then he has founded 3 other successful technology companies specializing in high-performance gaming, enterprise cloud security and remote technical services. He still considers himself a “video game junkie,” but when he’s not visiting one of his stores, Young is now just as likely to be mentoring one of his Jedi students in the field.
Born in 1971 and raised in Southern California, Young is a first-generation American. His parents emigrated from China to the United States in the late 1930s to escape repression and the early throes of World War II. At age six, Young began attending a computer-training camp established by a benefactor—a person he only remembers as “Charles”—for underprivileged children. He was trained on PC and Apple II+ computers, initially learning video game programming and development. He played video games, wrote video games and did a lot of hacking in his free time.
His first entrepreneurial efforts selling T-shirts, sunglasses and novelty items from a stand-in Venice Beach, California proved fun and lucrative. Dan’s business progressed and he opened a small shop at the outdoor swap meet selling cutlery in his Samurai costume.
After moving to Utah, the big box electronics retailer he was working for closed their doors, Young called all the customers that had bought computers from him and sent former customers a letter offering to honor their extended service warranties. The first year he lost $20,000, but the following year Young’s loyal customers earned him several hundred thousand dollars in net profit.
Young has now driven his company to consecutive listings among the fastest growing companies in America in Inc. Magazine. Since then he has founded 3 other successful technology companies specializing in high-performance gaming, enterprise cloud security and remote technical services. He still considers himself a “video game junkie,” but when he’s not visiting one of his stores, Young is now just as likely to be mentoring one of his Jedi students in the field.