Chef Patrick
Company Website: DomainSubway.com
Contact: Patrick@ChefPatrick.com
I am the creator and head chef here at ChefPatrick.com.
I will spare you my childhood and start off with dropping out of high school in the 9th grade. I acquired my GED, went to one semester of community college and joined the Air Force. After the Air Force I went from one corporate job to another and found one major thing in common. They all fired me or I quit before they fired me. I am not meant to be in the corporate world, I am an entrepreneur and love starting new companies. Believe me I have started and failed at my fair share.
About four years ago I found my calling in real estate. I created two of the largest real estate companies in central Florida. One was a we buy houses investment company and the other a short sales company also known as loss mitigation services. The we buy houses investment company was started with less than $500 in my bank account. These companies allowed me to purchase, sell and short sale almost 300 single family homes. Between the real estate market crashing and losing my passion for the business I decided it was time to get out. One major advantage I had over everyone was the creation of national brands. I was able to sell those brands and get out of the businesses with something to show for it. I could not just retire for two reasons, I didn’t save all my money, Instead I spent a lot of it on an expensive lifestyle and two because I would be bored out of my mind. Because of my internet presence in the real estate industry I was able to succeed. Why not take that without the physical real estate and see what can happen. On May 15th 2008, with no experience, I joined a couple domain forums and started buying domains, roughly 1,000 names to date. Besides purchasing domain names I knew I had to create a brand to get my foot in the door and build a reputation with the domain business. I created DomainSubway.com, which was my primary site, blog and domain portfolio all in one. Then came DNKitchen.com which is now ChefPatrick.com.
This was the short version, if you are interested in reading about me in full detail please visit PatrickRuddell.com.
