Acquisitions Anonymous - #1 for business buying, selling and operating - The $10M “AI Anti-Aging Bed” That Might Be Too Weird to Be Real
Episode Date: April 24, 2026In this episode the hosts analyze a bizarre AI-powered therapeutic bed business with strong profits but questionable positioning, confusing pricing, and a whiff of pseudo-science risk.Business Listing... – https://www.bizbuysell.com/business-opportunity/amazing-anti-aging-bed-ai-driven-may-qualify-for-e2-visa/2455345/Welcome to Acquisitions Anonymous – the #1 podcast for small business M&A. Every week, we break down businesses for sale and talk about buying, operating, and growing them.Looking to build a professional website in minutes? Try Wix: https://wix.pxf.io/c/6898629/3115214/25616?trafcat=templateHubSpot is the backbone for how businesses scale without chaos. Try them out here: https://go.try-hubspot.com/OeG9VrSubscribe for more episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@AcquisitionsAnonymousPodcast?sub_confirmation=1Subscribe to our Newsletter: https://www.acquanon.com/newsletter💰 Sponsored by:Quiet Light Brokerage specializes in helping entrepreneurs buy and sell businesses with experienced operators as brokers. They offer a free valuation clarity call to help owners understand what their business is worth and how to increase its value before selling. Learn more at https://quietlight.com/Acquisition Lab – Your fast-track to business ownership. Get hands-on support, world-class resources, and join a top-tier community of acquisition entrepreneurs. Schedule your free consultation at https://www.acquisitionlab.com and mention Acquisitions Anonymous!This week’s deal features an unusual medical wellness business selling AI-enabled therapeutic beds to spas and clinics. The company generates roughly $3.2 million in revenue and $1.1 million in EBITDA, with patented technology and a showroom/warehouse operation in Orlando. But the listing raises eyebrows immediately—starting with a $10 million asking price that mysteriously drops to $7 million just a few paragraphs later.Key Highlights:- $3.2M revenue / $1.1M EBITDA with only 7 employees- Asking price confusion: $10M headline vs. $7M later in the listing- Product targets medical spas using patented therapeutic bed technology- Seller motivation: debt payoff rather than retirement or growth strategy- Major risk: unclear product differentiation in an extremely competitive marketSubscribe to weekly our Newsletter and get curated deals in your inboxAdvertise with us by clicking hereDo you love Acquanon and want to see our smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel.Do you enjoy our content? Rate our show!Follow us on Twitter @acquanon Learnings about small business acquisitions and operations.For inquiries or suggestions, email us at contact@acquanon.com
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Welcome to Acquisition Anonymous. Today's video was myself and Travis going through a deal that I brought from Orlando that involves a smart mattress, AI, and a price that changed by 30% in three paragraphs of reading the teaser.
So Travis and I had a great conversation. He's a super smart, well-spoken guy who knows a lot of stuff, so it was super fun to dig into it.
Enjoy the episode. Stick around to the end. You'll see how we felt about the deal.
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All right, Travis, good to see it.
Okay, so I took the family to Japan for spring break.
It was just like magical thing.
My kids are 17 and 20.
So this is kind of the twilight of kid time.
And you have young kids.
So imagine how special things are now, but when it starts to end, it's like graduating high school, college, and like your first girlfriend breaking up, like, all in one. That's like the emotional thing of your kids starting to age out. So we took them to Japan. We're flying over there. And like I'm thinking about business. I'm kind of stressed out and I'm chewing on my nail. And I chip my tooth. And you know that annoying chipped tooth to where like your tongue touches it the entire time. And I started to do like the Japanese young lady thing, which was when I was when I was.
talking, I would cover my mouth because I was embarrassed in my smile. So I call the dentist,
and I'm going to go through this for 10 days in Japan, embarrassed about my smile. And I call
the dentist like the day I get home, I'm like, can I get back in? They're like, yes, in a week.
So two days before I'm supposed to go back in, I'm sitting there thinking about business.
I've got my thumb in my mouth on my nail. I chip another tooth, all of once.
So there I am. I'm looking like a vampire. I got two chipped teeth. I'm talking
like a young, you know, Harajuku Japanese lady, young lady with my covering my mouth with my hand
the whole time. And so I go into Dave the dentist because my wife is like, are you excited for
today? I was like, I'm so excited because I've been so frustrated by these chip teeth. So I go to the
dentist and the dentist was like, so what happened? She's like, did you buy it on a fork? I was like,
no, I was chewing on my nail. She's like, well, what happened to the other tooth? I was like,
also chewing on the nail. She's like, how old are you? I was like, 52. I'm an idiot. So anyway,
It's been the best day ever because he's like, I got you covered.
And she fixed it.
And now I'm proud of my smile again.
Because as a 51-year-old male, that's how I actually old I am, the only thing that
people ever compliment me on my appearance is my teeth.
That's the thing I got to keep going because there was going to do something.
There's anything else.
True story.
My dad chose his nails for 70 years.
And then he also chipped his tooth really bad.
But it was something about how it happened meant he had to spend like, I don't know, 15, 16,
$17,000 fixing it.
And so he immediately stopped
chewing his nails right there.
Yeah, I told the dentist, I was like,
if you fix this, I'm never screwing up again.
I'll be good, I promise.
God, please.
Okay, so I got a crazy deal for you
since we're done talking about me.
I hope you're doing well.
I'm going to do a good buddy.
Thank you.
My teeth are fine.
Okay.
So I ran across this because it is one of the weirdest deals
I've ever seen. So it is an amazing anti-aging bed that is AI driven. And the header is also
may qualify for an E2 visa. So it's located in Orange County. It's listed by Alan Mayrez,
who looks pretty respectable. He's got a pocket square in and yeah, it's exactly what you expect.
So there's a picture of kind of a floating, how would you describe this? Like Aladdin
and one of the mail-in mattress companies had a baby.
It's like a floating, you're floating magic bag, magic car.
It looks like a porn set, to be honest.
Oh, I wouldn't know.
In theory.
So I've heard.
Actually, I did record from my channel a video about the Rise and Fall of Only fans,
and I recorded it all before the owner just died.
And, but in doing it, usually when I record one of these videos for YouTube,
I talk, I go do first person research.
I go to Quiznos, I go to Starbucks, like I go try it if I can't, top golf.
And here I had to turn to the camera and be like, I did no first person research on this guy.
Just so, you know, never opened up only fans, have no plans.
So anyway, good times.
All right.
So the magic porno bed company has a $10 million asking price.
It makes $1.1 million in EBITDA on $3.2 million in gross revenue,
established in 1995.
The first line.
This business may be bought with an SBA loan with only 10% down.
This established medical technology manufacturing and retail enterprise
specializes in AI-enabled therapeutic beds and related accessories,
serving the medical spa industry through established distribution channels.
The company operates as both a manufacturer and retailer managing proprietary technology
protected by two granted patents.
Gross revenue is over $3 million.
the owner makes $1.1 million a year and strong profit margins.
They are proprietary AI-driven medical bed technology with patent protection,
and then I think a bunch of the other stuff that they just said here again.
There's a 50% partnership opportunity if you only want to buy in for half of it at $3.5 million,
or you can buy the whole thing for $7 million,
which is confusing to me because up here it says the asking price is $10 million.
So how do you read that, Travis?
Did they just lower the price in two paragraphs?
I'm not convinced anyone knows what they're doing yet.
Okay.
SBA financing is available for, maybe available for qualified buyers,
potentially requiring a 5 to 10% down payment.
The business may also qualify for E2 visa consideration for eligible international investors.
Are you familiar with this visa type?
Not really.
I think we've all heard whisperings of it.
It is supposedly the foreign investor visa, so E2 visa.
So like if you see like a lot of these, at least here in San Antonio, we get them all the time, these weird kind of real estate projects where it's like, who's going to buy this? Like it's a condo and stuff like that. It's because people that are from U.S. Here's described it. The E2 visa allows nationals from treaty countries to live and work in the U.S. by making a substantial investment in legitimate U.S. businesses where they own at least 50% or have operation control. The investment must be a risk and the business cannot be marginal. It is a non-immigrant renewable visa.
So you have to invest over $100,000, but there's no minimum, and you can potentially do less.
And the business must be active legal and generate more income than just providing for the investor.
And you must come to the U.S. to direct and develop the enterprise.
Initial admission is up to five years or two-year extensions available indefinitely as long as the business thrives.
So, yeah, so I think he's indicating this is a way if you're a Chinese or whomever.
I think the Chinese can still do it.
Mexican, that sort of thing.
You can use this visa.
I can buy this magic carpet bin.
In theory, it sounds like a good visa.
Let's get people motivated to build things to come here and do things.
Yeah.
As a citizen, I'm pro this visa.
Yeah.
That's a good thing.
Let's get more smart people in here building stuff.
Okay.
So they have due diligence requirements.
You do have to provide proof of funds documentation or the lender-free qualification letter.
And it is a growing entry into the medical wellness sector with established revenue streams and stuff like
about. They have seven employees. They operate in a commercial complex with a large showworm
in a big warehouse of about 8,000 feet while there are other businesses in this space,
none are as unique as this one. And the reason for selling is the seller has to pay off
some debt. And it's located in Orlando, Florida. So what's your thought on what they do here?
I still don't know what they do. Are they selling, is they a distributor? Are they selling this to
wellness centers or is this that has to be the business. Am I missing it?
It says here the company operates both as a manufacturer and retailer, maintaining proprietary
technology protected by two granted patents.
Well, I wish I would give some details on what this AI bed does.
Does it track your sleep? Does it change your position? Does it change the firmness?
It's definitely possible. This reminds me, I went to go visit a guy once.
who was probably, well, he was in his late 60s at the time,
but he was one of those people that just bought hook, line, and sinker
every just kind of hokey, like scammie, like medical technology.
And it was just like, I went to his office once,
and he was a very wealthy guy.
And went to his office once,
and he had like 5,000 square feet of all of these weird aura beds
and like electro-stimulation stuff.
compression, you know, type, type things.
It was basically like the $10 to $25,000 version of machines that are like the,
what's that band that you put on, like the one that's like a copper band?
The copper band, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Like, imagine that, but it's from billionaires.
Like, that was what it is.
And all the machines look like they were straight out of Buck Rogers.
That's the weird thing about.
Did you ever see the Meagan beds?
No.
Oh, wow.
This was cool.
This was before I was the entrepreneur.
It was, they would open these centers.
And they would have, I don't know, like 20 beds in them.
And these beds would have, you would lay on it and kind of a massager would go up and down.
And it was full of the infrared like red light bulbs.
And so you would lay on it and it would be zapping your body while this massager goes up and down.
And their business model was kind of unique.
You could come into the center as once a day for free as long as you would want.
and but they would get people because they wanted to do it at home instead of coming in the center
and they would charge them out with $20,000 for this bed or something like that.
I think they did well for a while.
It's kind of a wild business model.
Yeah, it has to be because you're selling a $1,000 bed basically for $25,000.
Like, it's got to be a good business.
I mean, from a profitability standpoint.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I think it was franchised out anyway.
But also, I don't think that place is there anymore.
So maybe it wasn't a great business, but in theory.
Yeah.
this feels like this is part of that same vein of stuff,
which is the scammy pseudo-health.
You know, we're not going to make any claims,
but like if you're the type of person that reads obscure websites
about your health and wants to take like weird peptides,
like this is for you.
Yeah, yeah, 100%.
There's so much money in this industry, too.
It's absolutely bonkers.
It's like people get called up in like the conspiracy theory industry
or like the some like the crazy alt investing stuff.
If you ever get on an alt-investing newsletter,
my God, those people are.
nuts. Like every single day, like the U.S. is collapsing tomorrow, tomorrow. And then the next day,
well, it didn't happen because of this one reason, but the next day it's going to collapse.
I promise you, buy gold now. It reminds me, that reminds me, Robert Kiyosaki, the rich
dad, poor dad guy. That dude. Who's predicted 130 the last zero recession.
Like, writes one amazing book and then just goes bonkers for the next 30 years. Oh, you know,
he didn't even write it.
Well, really?
He had a ghost shredding for him.
Oh, that explains a lot, then.
That explains a lot more.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, that dude's off his rocker.
Is there any way this product actually works?
If we knew what it did.
I mean, I could, I mean, I can right now think of several ways, like, AI bed would be
kind of useful.
I mean, I had the eight-sleep, like, mattress topper.
Amazing.
Like if you hear all the ads, like those are, you know, usually sponsored.
I'm not sponsored.
That thing's amazing.
Get that.
But like, we are.
Yeah.
We're chili pad family.
And I'm a whoop guy.
And it has taken my whoop scores up to 100 consistently.
Yeah.
Game changer.
And the eight sleep has a lot of like the tracking in it now.
And I can see like the little changes that I make.
And so my sleep score gets better because of the things that I learned from that.
But you could do that the aura ring.
Doesn't have to be a mattress.
So I could totally see this being a thing.
I could totally see.
And I think the latest eight sleep, if you start snoring, it will slowly raise you up, your head up, the entire bed.
And so, like, to change your angle, so you stop snoring as much.
I don't have that model.
But so you could see all these things where you're putting AI in quotes.
Like, you don't need AI.
It's just, you know, you got to say AI now because it adds, it adds a couple turns to the valuation by just putting AI in the name right now.
So, there are things this bed could do.
So it could actually be useful.
I mean, if I paid a lot for a chili pad, you know, we have a California king because I'm six foot five.
So we bought two size.
So I paid $3,000, which is a lot, a lot of money for a bed topper.
But I would pay it again in a heartbeat.
Like, it is that worth it.
So in theory, this could be actually, there could be some useful aspect of this.
One of the things would be, if you are in that space, I mean, talk about,
a competitive industry right now to gain any eyeballs like you know the smart mattress thing the eight
sleeps the chili pad is basically raining number two right now eight sleep i would hate to compete with
them but then just the mattress industry in general i cannot think of too many more competitive
industries other than like credit cards out there yeah that is it is it is a cutthroat yeah i mean
imagine competing with ramp or brex and those guys in the budgets they have like
like the amount of money.
I am so thankful for VCs, by the way, as somebody who owns, like, a media business that takes
ads because every week they're like, we would like to spend a lot of money with you.
I'm like, fine, we'll take it.
Like, you want me to, you want to pay me how much to read an ad for 60 seconds?
I'm your guy.
And then I'll go walk in the drainage ditch to talk about some business I wouldn't
heard out about.
Curdley, have you ever done an episode on the mattress phenomenon we witnessed a few years ago?
No, like rising fall of mattresses, stuff?
Please do that.
I would watch that in a heartbeat.
I would love to see that.
It was so fascinating.
I think, like, the gross margins on a lot of these were negative every unit they sold for a while.
Really?
Gross.
Not even net.
Yes.
Oh, you're talking about the smart mattresses?
Are you talking about, like, mattresses for a master?
No, all of them, the purples, the what, helix, all of those.
The D.
The D.C ones.
Yeah, it got nutty for a while.
So, yeah, make one of those.
I'd love to watch that.
Humorously, this morning, because my teeth were chipped, I did a Smile Direct Club.
because my teeth were, I was like, I'm recording this thing because my teeth are all messed up.
Last night I spent the night ready, ready to script for that because my teeth felt terrible.
I was like, oh, good.
But it was the same thing.
Like, they were spending, Smile Direct Club was spending over 50% of revenue on marketing, on KAC.
So they were doing three quarters of billion dollars a year for those little teeth straightening kits, but they were losing money.
It was unbelievable.
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Because they're aiming for an exit.
And when you have a model like that, the moment you slow down, your valuation's gone.
You have to keep pushing forward.
You got to keep accelerating even if you're playing that venture game.
If you lose that.
I mean, like you and I, we're happy to play non-venture games, right?
Like, oh, it's increasing 5% a year.
Awesome.
Sweet.
Good valuation we got in.
This is a great deal.
No, those things, if you're not, like, you know, 10%, 20% month over month, like you're nothing.
So you just got to keep adding money no matter what it's doing.
Have you seen where people are starting to do smart mattresses but for toilets and poop analysis?
Have you seen some of this?
No.
So two thoughts about this.
One is we just, we went to Japan, you know, for spring break.
And you go to a public toilet and it's like,
one of those fancy, you know, like the Toto toilets
or like the buttons that bidets you
and all that kind of stuff.
Totally amazing.
Like you'll go to a train station and there's one of those
and it's pristine because the Japanese have this
whole community-centric way of looking at the world.
Like if you soiled something and disrespected the toilet
and the trade station, that's a you problem.
Right.
So like they're super, like it was super amazing.
And we came back and like, first thing we're doing
was like installed a bidet at the house because everybody
is like, we're going to have,
Crystal clean, backsides.
So, anyway.
Toto's all the way.
For sure.
We got them.
Why would you not?
They're totally worth it.
So interestingly enough, a friend of mine, he knows a guy who's American on the board of Toto.
And the guy, when he joined the board, basically went in, he's supposed to represent kind of the Western consumer.
And he went in and said, hey, like, you need to, like, do more diagnostics and, like, give people, like, gut health and all this kind of.
of stuff from usage of the toilet. And so they can kind of use that as a way to make themselves
healthier. And the Japanese responded, who were in charge of the company, responded that they
didn't want to do that because they already knew so much about people from how they pooped
and when they pooped and all that kind of stuff that it would freak people out because those toilets
were so smart. Oh, they're logging data. Really? Yeah. Why? So,
I was like, well, if you guys really want to know about that, it's fine.
Like, I have a lot of fiber.
All right, so back to this deal.
I mean, I wanted to kind of bring this forward because this pattern matches to me
is something that just, like, this is the type of thing that when you're first starting
out, you're like, well, there could be something here.
But is there any way this thing is just not totally scammy?
Like, is there any path that you see this?
So I totally see it being a legitimate business.
I think it's the positioning and the valuation and being thrown around.
around with it that makes it totally scammy.
I don't know.
Just make an interesting mattress that like gathers data or does something.
That's fine.
That's cool.
But the whole positioning just takes it.
And I don't necessarily blame them.
Like I don't love it.
But like, I don't know.
Take a flyer.
See if anyone wants to do this, right?
Like maybe some rich person from the Middle East.
Like, yeah, sure.
I'd like a visa in the U.S.
Let's just buy this.
And it's AI.
AI sounds cool.
Like, I don't know.
You're super rich.
Like, yeah, I got an AI company.
I don't know.
Take a flyer.
So,
uh,
well,
they can't blame them.
They only got to make a market of one,
I guess.
Yeah.
Cool.
All right.
Well,
yeah,
I think it's just a fascinating one.
I love how they change the asking price from the top of the listing to the bottom.
Like,
they went down 30% in three paragraphs.
So,
all right.
So where do you stand on this one?
Anything else we should talk about?
No.
No.
Are you guys going to have this one on CapitalPad?
Yeah, I can't wait.
Can't wait for this one on Capital Pad.
Like just salivated thinking about it.
What's the coolest deal you guys have done lately?
I have one.
I just finished the editing on it right now.
Actually, so it's HVAC, which is interesting because residential HVAC, right?
And so that basically means you can't do it because it's too expensive now.
we had to leave the country.
We went to Canada.
So we're doing a Canadian deal.
And that's the only way to get it priced correctly.
Because Canada is always, you know, as they say, five to seven years behind the U.S. in the Turner.
So, yeah, it really soaked.
Residential HVAC company.
It's looking really solid.
Is there debt available up there for that?
Are you guys having a well-priced debt?
If the sponsor behind it is talented and basically, you know, has a track record, then yeah, yeah, they can get dead.
it. It's like 6%.
Okay. But it's like a Canadian, there's a Canadian bank or something like that.
Yeah, Canadian banks. It's not, there's nothing like a searcher program. These are definitely
like independent sponsor style deals, more traditional financing. But yeah, they get it.
And the rates are better than the U.S. even. So it's kind of attractive.
There you go. Well, so how does the process work? So next to you guys, you prepare everything.
You put it in front of the membership and then there's basically probably a management call where they
come in and that people have a chance to opt in or opt out.
That's kind of the flow.
Yeah, so we'll make the listing live on the site today, tomorrow morning.
The email will go out to all of the accredited users on the platform and kind of like a teaser.
They go to the site and they can check it out.
See if they're interested.
They can sign the NDA on platform and then go deeper if they are.
And then later in the week we'll have an open like sponsor call.
So Q&A, the sponsor can ask any questions they won't.
Anybody can join the call who signed the NDA.
And we just go from there and we start opening applications.
Nice.
Yeah, pretty simple.
That's all point.
Well, hopefully when I am less cash strapped, I will be in there writing some checks because
I know Bill's having fun with it, so I want to do it too.
Really good time.
Thanks, Bill.
Oh, he's told me he's active.
I don't, you know, you say that.
Okay, so back to this deal.
Sounds like you're a, man, I wish this wasn't $10 million type position.
on it or how are you thinking?
I mean, when I see AI, I almost just, it's immediate right off.
Like if something in my inbox has AI on it, I'm like, nah, let me do that.
I don't need to open that.
But yeah, I don't know.
If they, it said like health-focused bed or something like that.
I'd be more interested.
There's something to be said about smart beds.
I mean, people are buying them.
I ended up buying one because one of my friends was like, you've got to do this.
And I was like, okay, I'll do it.
And I did it.
And I don't regret it.
What if the deal was from Alan Iverson buying a Canadian HVAC company?
Alan I would be more interested.
Yes, I would be very much more interested, an AI HVAC company.
So did you follow the SPAC era closely?
Not closely, you know, from a distance of amusement.
It's about it.
One of the things, so, you know, SPACs would raise these kind of blind pools that would then go find companies to take them public.
and one of the things they would do is they would go get a big suite of partners.
But every single one would go and it'd be a couple guys that were just very wealthy,
fund managers or whatever, private equity partners, VC partners.
And then they would go and recruit other people to be on the investor base with them to go put
together this blind pool.
But the secret that they all figured out was if they wanted to open up any door,
they would all go bring in one or two celebrities,
especially sports celebrities.
So every single one had like Dave Winfield,
if you remember him from the 1980s as a baseball player,
David Robinson here in San Antonio,
one of the greatest basketball players ever.
He was on one.
I think Derek Cheater was on one.
Just like this random like, hey, we need to get a meeting with anybody.
Okay, how are you going to do that?
We're going to have Don Mattingly on our cap table.
That was the play.
And I just thought it was hilarious whenever I would see one of these specs,
I was like, okay, who did they get?
Did they get Ichi row for this one?
Who's in this one?
Sometimes it happens.
That's always kind of been a turnoff to me, though.
Like, if I see a big sports figure or something like that, I'm like, well, is this, is this the play, right?
Like, why do they know how business works?
It's had the opposite effect on the outside of a few, I don't know, if I see Shaq on a cap table, I'm very interested.
But outside of a few, like, it doesn't make any sense.
It's a negative signal.
When the VC deals that I've done, when there are.
are when there's somebody who's like a celebrity, a celebrity investor, like they're terrible.
They're too busy being celebrities to be like actually like good like investors.
They're like totally unhelpful.
And routinely like I'd be talking to the startup founder and they'll be like, why, I talk to so-and-so's person.
And they never talk to the celebrity.
I talk to someone so-and-so's person and they gave me this advice.
And I'm like, that's horrible advice.
Don't do that.
Like that's a really bad idea.
Like these people don't know what they're doing.
They know how to be celebrities.
They don't know anything about how to grow businesses.
And, you know, I think that's, I see that, I saw that same phenomenon over and over again.
It totally jaded me about, like, having big names on your cap table or on your vespit table being a creative, just like what you're saying.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Now, if the celebrity wants to start a brand or something like that, like, I don't know, like Jessica Alba's, uh, Jennifer Gardner's, what's the, what's that little kids food brand?
Oh, yeah, she's on a farm.
They didn't they just IPO or about to IPO?
I mean, she's crushed it.
They're everywhere.
Reese Witherspurn is a similar kind of story.
She's really good at business.
Jack is great.
Oh, yeah.
And all those names, the Kardashians, really good at business as well.
Yeah, skims, I guess, is another one.
I haven't seen how that's doing lately, but.
I mean, it's the Kardashians, the weight that they still pull.
I watch an amusement from afar, but it's like, wow, they can still just kind of make anything happen.
Yeah, got to really respect that.
Cool.
Why thumbs down on this one?
I wish it just looked so scamy.
That's why I wanted to look at it.
But it's good radio.
So cool.
Well, we'll wrap it up there if that works for you.
Yeah, man.
All right.
Thanks, God.
Awesome.
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