Jamal, a New York entrepreneur, runs Internetbyfax.com, a service that lets Amish businesses send and receive emails through fax machines in small shanties on their properties. The platform bridges Amish restrictions on technology with the need to do business online.
You know how the Amish are famous for creating amazing furniture? On many of these Amish websites, when I was looking at how to like place an order, I had to email at ibyfax.com. Send and receive emails with your fax machine. A lot of them are very entrepreneurial. They have websites. However, they are not allowed to use certain technology that's considered individualistic. Well, how do they do it? Internetbyfax.com. On the campus of a lot of Amish towns, there is literally like a small house, like a shanty, and in that small house is a fax machine. It looks like a phone booth slash porta-potty. It's in the middle of the road, and on the wall is just a tiny phone. A huge percentage of them are using this website, and this website, the owner, his first name's Jamal. Is there a brother who just came up with a brilliant idea to create an Amish faxing website? So is he Amish or no? No, he lives in New York.
