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id: 20260927_190454_don-leask-wa
title: Don Leask was Daniel Comp's very first web customer.
category: voice_log
predicted_narrative_arc: Long-term adaptation from early web to AI
sentiment: Positive
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- admiration
- nostalgia
- optimism
keypoints:
- First web customer in 1997
- Grew to 11-17k unique auto parts online
- Adapted across eBay, Bonanza, and own garages
- Pioneering AI voice and chat storytelling
- Planning agent-led sales revival
summary: Don Leask was Daniel Comte's first web customer in 1997 when launching Intelligent
  Network, with David teaching internet use at a time when few had websites. Don built
  Car Parts 2 into a major seller of obsolete auto parts across eBay, Bonanza, and
  specialized garage sites, adapting strategies over 29 years amid changing Google
  and marketplace rules. He now serves as an early data partner using AI for transcribed
  voice and chat stories pushed directly to sites and Gemini, with plans to deploy
  agents like Misty for renewed online sales.
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- ai-adoption
- ebay-seller
- data-partner
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- first-web-customer
- obsolete-auto-parts
- online-pioneer
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truth_score: 8
entropy: 4
sample: false
consent: own_laptop
agent: compa
source_session: ''
created: '2026-09-28T02:04:54Z'
updated: '2026-09-28T02:06:10Z'
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source_transcript: vault/02_STUDY/VoiceLog_Transcripts/VoiceLog-2026-09-27_185818_don-leask-was-daniel-comte-s-very-first.from-wav.txt
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# Voice log transcript

_Source: 20260927185818_VoiceLog-20260927-185814.wav_

_Recorded: 2026-09-27 18:58:18_

_Transcribed: 2026-09-27T19:02:00_

## Story

Don Leask was Daniel Comp's very first web customer. That was in 1997 when he first launched Intelligent Network. And Daniel's son David would go over to their house and teach them how to use their computer on the internet because almost nobody had a website at that time. And Don and Kathy had an eBay account, Car Parts 2. So eventually over the years, he became the largest online seller of obsolete auto parts and had something like 11 or 17,000 unique auto parts on their website.

And they had a whole bunch of syndicated hubs, or we called them garages, like a garage for a Mustang and a garage for a Chevette and one for a Corvette. And so over time, he worked eBay and Bonanza and his own website. And of course, Google would always change what they were doing and the other middlemen would charge more and more. And so Don constantly had to change his strategy and the way that he put things up. But he always had sales coming in, fairly consistency and let the whole internet on restoration and obsolete auto parts.

And now almost, man, 1997 to here, 29 years later, Don is now a data partner, one of the very first and one certainly the very oldest to be using AI to tell their stories, especially in chat and in voice, transcribed by AI. And then pushed to their website as an asker, which feeds immediately into the Microsoft data centers for AI and circumvent Google by directly posting to Gemini. So Don's finally figured out a way around the big cartel boys where he can take his stuff.

And now what we're going to do in the next couple of weeks is to figure out how to start selling stuff across the internet. Again, leading everyone in his industry by his example and whatever we figure out using his grok bot, his team of digital agents named Misty, or I should say, headed up by an agent called Misty and then all the sub agents that work for Misty. So he once again is being a pioneer in his field.

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