#22 - Cloud Kitchens, Kava Bars & Religious Products

Okay, million dollar brainstorm. We're back. You've been in Hawaii. Tell us about that. If you guys Google lobby conference, you'll see it. A lot of people write about it as if it's this douchey event. Right. Which is it? Okay, what's douchey about it? It's expensive and it's in Hawaii and it's a bunch of tech people. I don't think that's douchey, but it definitely checks many people's boxes. to fit that stereotype. It's called Lobby Conference. So how'd you get invited? Narandra, he referred me. Okay, so it's this uh you can Google it to learn about it, but it's this event hosted by David Hornick, one of the partners at August Capital of V C 150 or two hundred people, invite only. They've done it for thirteen years now. And The guys who were there on the first year, many of them are still there. And it's like internet OGs like Tony Shea, the founder of Zappos, was there. Kevin Rose. Kevin Rose, dig I had dinner and hung out most of the time with Tim Lestergen, founder of Pandora. Like all these guys who were like maybe my age now, but are in their forties. Right. Who were still trying to have a hit and have now had some hits. It was awesome.

It was great. Two takeaways. Yeah. Number one, Gen Z totally they're fucked. Okay, why? I don't think there's a No, there's like we're we had these like little meetups about uh like and we would talk about interesting things. Gen Z, I didn't realize it. They're having very little sex. They're doing a lot of drugs, but they're not drinking and a lot of them have depression and mentality. Gen Z is like twenty one and then younger right now?

Uh maybe four, twenty four. Twenty four and younger. Yeah. Suicide rate's high. The depression rate is like astronomical. Who was talking about this? Who was like the Gen Z. So it was very much like well here's what the cool kids think. Like I realized that at that time I'm like an old guy who's like, Well how do they use it? Yeah, exactly. Old people talking about young people. Yeah. It never fails. funny I w I was like the youngest guy there. People had Gen Z children. And they were talking about it. Right, right. Okay. Fair enough. The second thing. There was tons of like rich ballers there. Like really wealthy. And a lot of them seemed just horribly like Down, depressed and not like that. If you're young or if you're rich, you're depressed. That's what I'm learning. Everyone who's young hears this and no one believes it, which is that money will not make you as happy as you think it will. Right. I saw this first hand very clear. What made you say this that they're at this conference and they were just kind of recluse or what what made you feel this? Or they were sharing like look, I'm not

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