22-Year-Old CEO Revolutionizes Bar Service | Ethan Karian DSH #1268

Big change. Yeah, big change.
And it's like, it's great in summer and spring break, but like outside of that, it's just like a slow. Yeah.
And you're not going to go out and make those connections. And that was the biggest deal for us.
Like we, we don't want to keep ourselves in a bubble to where we can't grow. So moving out to Austin, we've made so many connections.
I bet. All right, guys, we got Ethan here, CEO of Sip Skip.
Thanks for coming on today, man. Thank you for having me.
Yeah. Could you explain what Sip Skip is for people that don't know? Yeah.
So we're a first of its kind mobile application. We allow users to get drinks faster at busy bars.
Basically, walk up to the bar, you buy a Sip Skip, hold it up, and that signals the bartender to come right to you first. We're actually having bartenders sign up through the app, connecting themselves to their bar, and they earn per skip that they're redeeming, just like a door dash driver would.
Yeah, so it's a win-win because the bartender is making more money somehow, right? Yeah, it's actually a win-win for everybody. So there's a sip skip fee, which goes directly to the bar, and then there's a bartender service fee, which helps the bartender gets compensated for their efforts.
So, and then it helps the user as well. So all three parties win.
Damn. And you are a young business owner.
How old are you? 22. Holy crap.
So you had this idea super young. Yes.
So I actually went to LSU for four years, just graduated last May. And those bars are super busy, super packed.
And I've spent a couple years

just waiting there. And one night I was at the bar, a couple of my boys had a pool table reserved

and I was at the bar with a couple of my friends who were just standing there for like 20 minutes.

And I was like looking around and I was just like, there's so much money like going through here.

Like there's gotta be a way to stand in front of it. And, and the, the first idea that kind of

came to me the next morning was like, you know, the game like heads up where you do that. I was Thank you.
were here like there's got to be a way to stand in front of it and um and the the first idea that

kind of came to me the next morning was like you know the game like heads up yeah where you do that i was like what if there was something that was like that alluring that draws you in to where you could hold it up to where a bartender can see it and that was kind of like the first concept behind the sips get passed that makes sense what you major in at lsu marketing okay yes was it useful. Wow.
It was. I mean, I mean, I wouldn't say that you learned like entrepreneurship in school.
You got to kind of self-teach that, but I've definitely taken some like from my professional sellings class and some like digital marketing as well. So it definitely helps.
Yeah. And I know you've read a lot of self-development books, right? Oh, for sure.
So you were doing that on the side. Yeah.
So actually my first book that was handed to me, it was in ninth grade by my father, Think and Grow Rich. If you don't have that book, you should go get that book.
Classic. Yeah.
I mean, that really just changes your perspective on life. I mean, there's so many things in there that just shifted my mind, especially as a 14-year-old.
He was like, you have to read this four times times in your life and i actually just started it for my fourth time like two weeks ago and and it just it's just to refresh the mind and it's just bringing back so many things from when i was younger that i needed to touch up on and um it's just really good stuff yeah that one's a classic how to win friends is a classic how to win friends yes sir yeah there's some bangers man uh especially at that age you know that at that age, you're just standing out from people your age. Yeah, and it was actually, it was kind of like a shock.
So like I'm like 14, then like 15, I started like getting into doing Instagram accounts, growing though like little niche accounts, like started getting out of the whole video game aspect of it and like my mind was like, okay, how do we get into the world of like the entrepreneurship? And then I was like 16 and I was like, I was like, let me try drop shipping. Like, let's try some, let's try some, some good, because this is back in like, like 2017, 2018.
Exactly. Exactly.
Everyone. So that's how I got into like making websites and stuff like that.
Um, and that was kind of like my firstpreneur I would say. Um, I learned a lot from drop shipping.
Really? I'll say that it was like, I would never do it I would say. I learned a lot from job shooting.
Really? I'll say that. I would never do it now, but I learned a lot at the time.
100%. You learn how to find a winning product, how to build a website.
I mean, you're not coding it, but you're doing it in a way to where you're putting the pieces together. Yeah, you're optimizing it.
You learn the back end of all that stuff. Yeah, how to market too.
Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
Instagram ads, Facebook ads. Um, and I kind of like thinking grow rich teaches you, I kind of learned, I was like, if I fail, fail, fail while I'm in school, I can, I can front load and kind of find something that's going to be successful early.
And that's what I'm doing. Yeah.
That's why I think it's smart to start businesses when you're young. and it's there's also some some downsides which i mean if you can take them you can take them um but it's just like you're growing up around people that are like haven't read those books and they're just like they're just normal kids you know and like in your head you're like oh like i have this vision and like they're just like oh let's play video games and i'm like uh like it's just's just, it's just, it's like a battle, but you know, you got to find balance.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Did you go through that phase, video games? Oh, yeah, yeah.
I used to love, I was playing 2K. First time I read Think and Grow Rich, I was, my dad gave it to me.
He was like, you have to read it on paper. I remember me and my friend.
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That's K-I-N-S-T-A dot com slash dsh. And we would sit on the Got Next spot and I'd take my headphones off and I'd like read a couple pages and then put it down, go into the game, go to the next game.
And that's kind of how like I got started. And then the year after that, I couldn't even really think about video games.
Yeah, I play a little Fortnite, but I took five years off. I had to.
Yeah, man. Got to grind, you know? Yeah.
Fortnite's lit, though. Yeah.
Fortnite is lit. My best friend, one of my best friends and my roommate now, he owns the biggest Fortnite page.
Damn. It's called Fourth Night.
I think I've seen that. Yeah.
You probably follow it, to be honest. I probably do, yeah.
And like, it's so funny because he's in like these Fortnite group chats with all these little accounts and they think he's like this big corporation, but it's just one dude. He just posts like eight posts a day.
He's just on his phone. It's funny.
He likes to say he's like he wakes up at like 12, gets out of bed at like 2.30 and like all his work's done for the day. Damn.
And he just works from his phone. That's impressive.
But yeah, so like that's how we got into niche or that's how like we started our niche

Instagram accounts together.

Yeah.

And his first one just hit.

You'd be surprised

how much these pages make.

My boy owns Banger Buddy.

Have you seen that one?

Yes.

Yeah.

With the red solo cup.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I think he makes,

I don't know if he even

wants to be sharing this,

but he makes good money, man.

Yeah.

Seven figures a year.

Oh yeah.

Yeah.

No, they're,

they're bringing in,

they're bringing in cash.

Yeah.

It's just like,

it's the eyeball business,

you know?

I want my product

in front of these eyeballs

in this market.

You have it.

Thank you. Oh, yeah, yeah.
No, they're bringing in cash. It's just like it's the eyeball business, you know?

I want my product in front of these eyeballs in this market.

You have it.

And then especially with Fortnite maps now, he's killing it.

Yeah, dude.

I heard some of those map creators are crushing it. He had this one kid reach out to him.

This kid's like 19 years old.

Yeah.

And he posted a bunch of his maps.

He made $32 million last year.

What?

At 19. Selling Fortnite maps.
Off of his map. Oh, my God.
I want to get that kid on the podcast. Yeah.
32 mil. I can connect you guys.
But yeah. Yeah.
I mean, you create the right map, you get in front of the right eyes and how does it work? So you make the map and then do you get paid based off how many people play? I have not got into that. I really don't know know that's all his forte he doesn't he doesn't even make the maps he just damn yeah because i know we just dropped mine today you have four times yeah oh that's it's a prop hunt do you know what prop on us it's hide and seek so you pretend to be any object and we got the digital social network shares the mics in it uh the tv screens with our oh i did see that i did see that on your story yeah so um story.
Yeah. That's sick.
Yeah. But yeah, I can connect you to my boy and he can promote your story.
Yeah, I love crazy stories like that. You can make money in the craziest ways these days.
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
And the tech game, man. I'm telling you.
Yeah. I mean, dude, I had a girl come on here selling her bathwater.
No way. Yeah, you can make money in all sorts of ways.
Oh, especially girls. They can make money really easy.
They make money easier. Yeah, it's a little easier for them.
They'll probably hate us saying that, but it's facts. If you're attractive.
Yeah, I mean, if you're a hot girl and you got a little bit of ambition and you want to get on social media, you can really do something. Yeah, it's easier.
You can really make something. If you're an attractive guy, that won't get you like much.
There's a lot. There's a lot more you got to do.
Yeah. And it's a grind.
It really is. You got to fail for a very long time.
I like it though. I love grinding.
No. Oh yeah, me too.
Like people always say like when you relax, working is relaxing for me. Oh, same.
It's like a meditation. It's wake up, rolling over, checking the phone.
My app guy's texting me about what's next. Yeah.
And I've kind of fallen in love with the process. I've been doing it since a young age.
But when you have your mind set on a vision and you're just a full train of steam headed there, it's just there's nothing that can stop you, man. Have you had a job before working for someone else? Yeah.
Yeah. So my, my parents, they were entrepreneurs and I always knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur, but when I was young, my mom, she made it, she made it, she was a stickler.
She was like, I want you to work all like the jobs that like normal, like kid would work. So like my first job was, you know, like those escape rooms.
Yeah. I love those.
So like, I was like, I worked at the escape room and, it's actually, you have to be really smart because you have to know every single game.

You have to know where every single piece of the game goes to reset it.

Wow.

And then you actually have to sit behind the computer and like as a game master.

So like let's say someone's in step five of the game.

You have to know what step six is.

So if they ask for a hint, you have to give them.

Right.

Yeah.

You got to be watching them the full hour.

Oh, yeah. Yeah.
So there's a whole bunch of stuff. You have to like bring them in the room, explain it.
I worked one of my most fun jobs. It was a tough job, but I worked as a dock boy at a marina.
That's rough, man. Why is that one rough? That's rough.
I mean, rich people, hundred foot boats, they have trash out the wazoo. you got to clean it up oh it's like dude they're just like 13 trash bags they just throw it out you got to throw it on your golf cart damn you got to fill up these but filling up the boats is nice but like i mean i'm talking fire hoses of of gas i mean three pumps this boat takes 30 minutes to fill and then some of these guys are great.
They'll tip you, tip you nice. But we had this, we had this one, we have a fishing tournament every, every year.
I'm from Destin, Florida. And in Sandestin, we have this fishing tournament every year.
And this boat won, they won 1.2 million for winning this tournament. The next morning they come in the slip, me and my friend, we fill their boat, takes like 45 minutes in the pouring rain.
And they push off and they're like, hey, no tip. No tip.
And this is like, we work on tips, you know? Oh, so you don't get an hourly? Oh, we get, barely. But like- Like minimum wage? But like these are like, it's the type of business where like you fill someone with like ice chest with a bucket and then they'll stop a hundred in your hand.
Like these are big money boats. It's a caddy kind of.
Yeah. These are big money boats, but then they win 1.9 mil and they just push off and they're like, Oh yeah.
And one more thing, make your slips bigger for next year. And we were like, Oh, you guys are crazy.
Damn. Yeah.
And then I've, I've worked as a bar back to behind a bar and done a little bartending as well. So like, so like I, I, uh, I'm happy I worked those jobs because like, like now, like when I go out to like restaurants and stuff like that, like I, I know like, like I have to tip those guys.
Cause I've been those guys. Yeah.
You could appreciate it. Right.
Yeah. And then you can, you can also see the people that have never worked those jobs.
Oh, you could tell. And then it's just like, it's, it's kind of like almost embarrassing to, to like when they say some sus stuff and you're just like, uh, like, like bro, you're embarrassing.
Like these guys are just trying to work hard, man. It's not even in their control.
Yeah. When they complain about the food and take it out on them.
Exactly. It's the shot.
Like little of that or if they mess up an order, I mean, um, but yeah, no. So like working those jobs, um, and then especially sports being young, I played baseball, basketball, football growing up year year round just all that just instilled like that yeah that grind like what were you the best at uh basketball oh yeah i uh i played basketball since i was four i was four years old was my first love and the the league the first league you can get in was a five-year-old league but uh my mom like brought me the coach he's like he's super passionate and like i tried out he, I tried out.
He's like, he's like, all right, we'll sneak them in. Because like, yeah, no basketball is my first love.
We're going to have to play, bro. Oh yeah.
We got to hoop for sure. I haven't hooped in a while, but I'm, I'm, I'm ready to get back.
Next time you're out here, I'm in the league out here, lifetime leagues. Oh, do they have lifetime in Austin? Oh yeah.
Oh, are you a member? Um, so we were a member. Um, and I'll actually shout them out right now, but we switched to another gym called The Collective.
Oh, God. The Collective is a great concept.
It's like a gym and a social club. Interesting.
So, like, you really can't go to the gym without making a connection. So, it's like, gym.
They also have, like, a chill space, like a really big chill space where you can just go. They have a kitchen where you can bring your lunch.
They have whole rooms to set up your computer, work. They also have meeting pods.
So if you need to take a meeting, you close the pod, quiet. They got obviously saunas, ice baths.
They have hot yoga rooms where the room's like hotter. Wow.
And it's a really cool concept. Dude, that sounds awesome.
Yeah. And ever since we joined there, I mean, obviously the people are so awesome, so nice.
And then every time we work out, like my friend with the Fortnite account, he comes home and he's like, dude, I just met this guy that lost 300K in crypto today. And he's like happy.
He's like, oh, the market's going down. I'm like, dude, these are the people we need to be meeting.
And me and him, we actually moved out to Austin on a whim. And so I graduated college and he did three years.
He did a little bit faster, the same age. And we booked a trip out to Austin.
We tour a bunch of houses. And we actually met other guys with an app.
And we're like, okay, this is our sign. So we signed it.
We signed a lease on a house and that was the only time we'd ever been to Austin. No way.
We said, screw it. We're moving out here.
Holy crap. City of Young Entrepreneurs.
We can't, I mean, we both were born and raised in Destin, Florida. It's a little beach town.
Big change. Yeah.
Big change. And it's like, it's great in summer and spring break, but like outside of that, it's just like a normal time.
Slow, yeah. And you're not going to go out and make those connections.
And that was the biggest deal for us. Like we, we don't want to keep ourselves in a bubble to where we can't grow.
So moving out to Austin, we've made so many connections. I bet.
Like, oh, what's the guy's name? Banger, the guy who interviews people. Oh, James Duell, the School of Hard Knocks.
School of Hard Knocks. Yeah, he's coming on the show next week.
In Austin. Yeah, that's sick.
So we were at the bar the other night and my boy ran into him and they were just chatting it up. That dude's built an empire, man.
Exactly. And these are the people you're meeting.
I was at the bar one night and I was just walked up to this girl girl because I thought she was cute. Yeah.
Started flirting with her and she ended up, she does marketing for this other app in Austin, which is huge. And she runs all our socials and I was like, I'm like, this is a business conversation now.
So now, I was like, now she's our socials girl. No way.
Stuff like that. Wow.
You're not getting that in Destiny. Nah.
Or like in little towns. So so like being in those big cities i would say if you're a young entrepreneur move to a big city if you have to do it on a whim if you have to do it by yourself you have a friend it's easier yeah but um but yeah i mean don't don't keep yourself in a bubble that's how i was in jersey man really you moved out from jersey i had to man i was the town.
My whole town. Exactly.
No one else was doing entrepreneurship. And you felt like, and you're like, I can't stay here because they're just.
No growth. No growth.
I was making 50K a year for three years straight. No growth.
And then as soon as I moved to LA and Vegas, boom. Yeah.
And I know you hear it all the time, but you're the sum of the five people you spend the most time with. So like you're spending time with that are eating cheetos and playing xbox and you're trying to become the next podcast you know like yeah it's it's gonna be an inverse effect 100 so yeah we kind of created this environment um we call it the house of killers so it's it's me my friend matthew and one of my pledge brothers from my fraternity peter um we live in this house and it's like we have one more room left in the house we actually we actually had to kick a guy out because he wasn't killing it oh he didn't meet the revenue requirements revenue was it was an issue but it was more of the mindset and it's like when you have one bad apple and everybody's on the same path to greatness and somebody's just kind of chilling 100 percent um yeah it's a it's kind of a cancer that needs to be cut out so we created an environment to where like like if someone's kind of chilling for a little bit we're like what are you doing like let's figure it out accountability accountability yeah and um and it creates that um it says it in think and grow rich when you have more than one mind that are focused on a fixed goal there's a third mind that becomes formed it's called a mastermind um again if you don't have that book or you've never read it go read that book i suggest everybody go get that book and all the books you see that are out right now like the 48 laws of power and stuff like that atomic habits like it's pretty much just a chapter of think and grow rich that someone took and made a book about yeah like the 48 laws of power are literally listed in think and grow rich i didn't know that well and someone just said oh these are great let's make a book like like it's it's the sauce it's it's the sauce yeah napoleon hill spent 20 years interviewing 500 of the world's richest men made a book that's Yeah.
To do it back then was way harder than it is now. Oh, yeah.

Like now I could do it on the podcast,

but back then.

Yeah, he had to go by train.

Yeah.

Even now, actually,

I was researching billionaires that go on podcasts.

There's only like 10 that actually go on podcasts.

Wow.

Isn't that crazy?

Wow.

Because I was trying to rack up some billionaires on the pod.

And they just, they don't want to do it.

They're low-key, man.

A lot of them don't even have social media.

I think they do try to stay low-key.

It's just like, I mean, when you're on a level like that,

it's just.

There's no point.

kind of one to stay out of the limelight, you know, because you start getting calls. Oh yeah.
Yeah. I'm into all those conspiracies.
I don't know. We start talking about that, but, um, but yeah, I mean, I mean, when you hit a certain, when you hit a certain number, they want to bring in.
It's just just like, there's a lot of stuff. Yeah, there's levels to the game.
Levels to the game, exactly. Is becoming a billionaire one of your goals? For sure.
You want it? Yes, yes, I do. You're going to have to sacrifice a lot if you want to get there.
And I'm ready to do it. Really? Yeah, I just, so my business partner, Sage, we just kind of met, um, recently through a mutual friend and I've never seen eye to eye with a person like we see, he wants to build cities and like, and he was just like, you have this look in your eye that like I have in my eye.
And it's just like, whatever you put your mind to, you're going to do it. And we have that, we have that same thing.
So now we just kind of put our heads together we have that mastermind like i was talking about earlier and and when you have two people or more than two people that have a goal to do something it's and they're like ferocious

it's unstoppable damn you can't stop them that's impressive man you got a good head on your

shoulders for your age thank you man like i wish i had that at your age thank you 22 yeah i was

getting right coming out of my party phase around that age yeah yeah okay i'm not yeah i went to Thank you, man. Like, I wish I had that at your age.
Thank you. 22.
Yeah, I was getting, right coming out of my party phase around that age. Yeah, yeah.
Okay. I'm not, yeah, I went to LSU for four years.
So, yeah. So, uh, definitely know how to party.
You had some fun there. Definitely know how to party.
And you were in a frat. Yeah, well, I wasn't, I was in a fraternity.
They're one of the best party schools, right? LSU. The best.
Allegedly. Yeah, it's, it's the best, bro.
I mean, it's, it's a different type of part different type of partying though it's it's it's like a it's like a degenerate fun but like no like nobody cares about class or anything everyone's just like let's have fun damn yeah and so like this is my first mardi gras i'm not at um like like all my like people i know from back there they're all nola right now i've never been to one of one of those. I heard it's cool though.
You've never been to Mardi Gras? No. Dude, you got to make one.
Yeah, what goes down in something like that? Dude, it's just, the only way I can explain it is just like, it's just, it's like three or four days of just straight up drinking every day. You got floats coming through.
And if you go with your fraternity, the way that kind of works is like, they set up like each fraternity from, there's a bunch of different schools that go just set up tents. So it's like tailgates.
Wow. And it's just like all day, every day.
And they all bring their own, we all bring alcohol. So it's like, if you're a girl, you never have to worry about paying for a drink.
Yeah. And if you're a guy, it's like with your fraternity, it's in the social budget.
So everyone's drinking and it's just beads and fun. And then after the parade, it's bourbon and it's just like do it again.
But it's it's a marathon. It's it's something like I did it for three years and I'm like, OK, with not doing it for a very long.
I feel like you got out of your system your system. Oh yeah.
Oh yeah. And um and like I have some friends that like they they missed it last year and they're going back and they're like yeah this will be my last one you know.
But um but dude Mardi Gras you definitely gotta make one of those. Yeah that's a bucket list thing for sure.
Yeah. I want to try the food mainly.
You've never been to NOLA? No. Oh yeah.
I almost went for Super Bowl but I was filming too much It's good to be on the ground We were out there for Super Bowl One of our investors His name is Matty Beckerman He has an app called IR Code And he was doing Super Bowl Ad Week Great software Super cool concept And he brought us out there And he was like yo I want you to come to all these events and stuff, blah, blah, blah. Fly out with me on the PJ.
Damn. And you guys can just chill with me and come do the Super Bowl stuff.
That's sick. So we basically got a free trip to the Super Bowl.
It was great. Those tickets weren't cheap, man.
No, not at all. Not at all.
And I mean, obviously the game was not it, but it was a really cool experience. Like, dude, we were rolling craps with Jon Hamm from Mad Men.
That's sick. Like everybody was in town.
That's sick. Yeah, it was nuts.
My first time on a PJ changed my life. Yeah.
I never wanted to go commercial again. I know.
I mean, it's so expensive, but. It's expensive, yeah.
Once you get a taste of it, you're like, dude. Yeah, dude.
This guy's funny. He plays, he has this thing.
He times up. He plays Freebird in the air.
What's that? Like the song Freebird. Oh.
Like the, like free. Yeah.
Like, so he plays it in the air, times it up, and then like gets it to where when the plane stops at the gate, the song stops. What? So when we landed in NOLA, it's like a six-minute song.
We're in the air, starts a song, and he got so timed up that the pilot could perfectly stop at the gate and the last drum hit it. No way.
We all went crazy. It was just nuts.
He's like, I swear I've only done that one other time. That's nuts.
But yeah, no. Super cool guy.
You might want to have him on here. Yeah, you got a good network, man.
Yeah, and part of that is my new business partner, Sage. He's connected to the world.
But yeah, so I'm really just trying to foster my connections, use SipSkip. My main passion in life since I was little is I wanted to find a disruptor to disrupt an industry, change it forever.
Like Uber, who takes taxis anymore? Yeah. So I've been trying to find my disruptor for a very long time.
And I had a couple different preneurs. I started another company.
It was called Hot Mess. It was a fitness company.
My main passion is fitness. I love teaching fitness to all of my friends and family.
And I fully believe in that. Like a healthy body mind.
And, um, it's more mental than it really is physical if you do it for long enough. Yeah.
Um, but with that being said, it's just, it's just, if you stick to a regimen and you know that, like, if I can do something day by day or stay on a week long, um, regimen, if I can do a fitness plan what can I do weekly daily or monthly and that can ripple across my life so it's like it's really just putting in the repetition so it's like I put in the repetition in the gym what else can I do yeah and that ripples across business because it's all repetition when it comes to business if you um like I had a business for two years. It was a fitness business and it was doing, it was doing all right.
Did some numbers. But I mean, fitness clothes is a saturated market.
Oh yeah. I started in apparel.
I would never go back. Never go back.
Never. You either, dude.
Tech is the, tech is the way to go. Yeah.
Higher, higher. And then I remember Sips get popped in my mind and it was like a moment and called my mom the next morning and I was like, oh, like I just got this idea.
Like I have to do it. Like if I don't do this, somebody is going to do it.
It's going to disrupt the world and I'm going to miss out and I'm going to regret it for the rest of my life. And I, she was like, oh, like maybe let's wait, like let's do hot mess, like blah, blah, blah.
And I was like, a week went by and I was like, nah, I literally just said, screw it. I didn't trash everything, I still have it, but I just kind of paused it, dove head on into this.
Cause I just could not get this idea off my mind. And the best decision I ever made.
A lot of it. How many locations are you guys in so far? So we just launched at the beginning of the year.
We brought on two test locations in September 1st when we went live to work out the kinks for a couple months. We just launched at the beginning of the year.
So we have five locations right now. Nice.
And we really want to start this in like the bar industry, the nightclub industry.

But where we really want to see Sip Skip is stadiums, concert venues.

Imagine it's first down and you don't want to miss the game for too long.

But that drink line is 20 people long.

You're going to pay the $10 to skip the line.

And then you're going to pay to get your drink as well.

And all that is, is creating an extra revenue source for the venue completely free of cost. It costs them nothing to implement.
It's a win-win. It's a win-win for everybody.
This first year, we're bringing on venues just to kind of test it out. We want to test it in environments.
We want to see it in. And then moving into 2026, we're going to start charging venues to put us in their venue.
Yeah. I love the name too.
Oh, thanks. Yeah.
Flows well. Sip Skip.
Sip Skip. Yeah.
it's the alliteration yeah the tick tock the doordash yeah um and then also the uh the red cup is uh when i came up with the red cup is uh we're trying to make that like the iconic like the um whenever you see the red cup like i want sip skip to be the name but like i want you to see the red cup and be like oh it's iconic yeah yeah i miss uh beer pong sometimes yeah no and we're trying to we actually did another launch last week and uh people were like where can i buy these hats like where can i buy these shirts like and then we were just like oh we need to put this online so we're getting a merch store up here might as well these days you could do made uh print print on order right yeah yeah, yeah. And it's all high quality merch.
Well, this is more for our store. Is that embroidered? Oh yeah.
Damn, that's clean. I got these for our sales, guys.
I'll probably start selling these soon, but I'm keeping these in the vault. Hell yeah.
So we'll probably just put the hoodies and shirts. And I got you a shirt and a hat.
Let's go. They're pretty sweet golf hats too.
I love it, man.

You playing golf?

No, I'm going to play this year.

Yeah.

Because I'm getting invited

to so many good golf events and stuff.

Dude, you got to get...

And I'm missing out on money,

to be honest.

Exactly, exactly.

There's so much big money in golf.

Dude, the richest people play golf.

Yeah, and it's such a good business day too.

Like, let's say you go out there

with some business connection guy and he's like, hey, let's go play some golf, but we can also talk about this project. We can start.
Right. No, it's like, it's a good way for you guys to have fun while kind of shooting the shit.
Yeah. Cause it's a casual sport.
You're not like puffing and puffing. No, not at all.
And, uh, I'm, I'm kind of new to golf as well. I'm terrible at golf, but I love going out there, drinking some brews with the boys and hitting some golf balls, especially if it's a nice sunny day.
Yeah. It's one of those sports that takes years to get good at, right? Oh yeah.
Oh yeah. My roommate, his dad was an ex-pro golfer.
And so he's- He's nasty. He's nasty.
He's been playing golf since he was 10. What is he uh i don't even know what to call it like was he shoot what is he is that what it is what does he shoot so he's i i think i think he's like in the 70s holy crap best he's ever shot was a 69 dude yeah that's insane dog he's a dog because you're probably like 100 right 100 plus i think the best i've shot in my life was like, like 105.

Oh my God.

Yeah.

And that's, and that's like, and that's like, if you've, if you've like played golf a couple

of times, like you're, if you've never played golf, you're probably shooting a 150.

Yeah.

Like 150.

Probably.

Yeah.

But yeah, no, it's like, yeah, dude.

I remember I, I've probably played golf like 40 times in my life.

Jeez.

Yeah. Not, not enough.
Not enough. I want to get good at golf and bowling.
And bowling, yeah. You ever bowl? I have a friend actually who lives in Colorado.
He's in a bowling league. What? And he loves it.
I mean, it's like a flex low key. Every Monday night, he's like, yeah, dude, like it's a whole tournament.
Like, dude, my team just won the championship. We all go drink and get pitchers and play and just bowl like but no bowling bowling's fun to be good at bowling is a flex yeah like if you could bowl like 150 200 like that's insane yeah dude i and like when people are like doing the spins and stuff yeah that's nuts i struggle to find people that can hoop man oh yeah yeah in the entrepreneur space there's not many hoopers yeah i mean they're they're more desk desk guys, you know, but I've been hooping.
You're nice though. Were you going to play in college? So, yeah, that's actually, um, so I, um, I was doing dropshipping and then I made it a point to myself senior year.
I was like, um, I was like, you know what? I'm going to, I'm going to throw like, like I'm going to go full into basketball, just give it a shot, um, see what offers I can get. And that summer going into senior year, put myself on a plan.
I was shooting like 500 shots a day. Damn.
I'm shooting from 30 plus. Damn, you're Steph Curry on here.
Yeah. I made the point, like when I was shooting on the gun, like I wouldn't shoot from the three-point line.
I'd shoot from like the NBA. Holy crap.
So that in high school though, like when you can shoot that deep, it really, it draws out the defense So you can just like sling those passes or like if they're too short, boom, busting it in the face. But, um, so like I made it a point to myself to grind that, grind that for a year.
I got a couple of D2s, a couple of independents. And then I, like business has always been my main focus.
And I was like, yeah, I want to have fun. But I'm, I'm so happy I did because I always like, always love basketball.
I know my whole life, I want to be fun. But I'm so happy I did because I always loved basketball.
I know my whole life I want to be great at basketball. So that whole year, and I've always been pretty good, but that whole year set a fundamental for me.
So now throughout the rest of my life, I'll always be pretty decent. That's cool.
Because the muscle memory, when you're shooting 500 a day, you don't forget that. Yeah, no, not at all.
Yeah, I can't wait to you play it on. Yeah, dude.
It'll be fun. Were you yamming on people too? Dude, yeah.
I had a point. Yeah, I mean, I'm a little white boy, but I went on this dunk program and it actually was like six years.
Which one? It was called… AirVert? No, it was called BoingVert. I haven't heard about it.
It was like way long ago. It was way long ago.
But I did it 16 weeks and I actually was able to dunk. Wow.
Like it was crazy. Like I was pretty much just like able to like do this on a rim.
Yeah. And dude, 16 weeks.
Holy crap. How tall are you? I'm six foot.
Yeah, that's impressive. And I mean, I got to a point where I mean, I've hit two windmills in my life.
Damn. I've hit two windmills.
It's a windmill out of six. Yeah, it was a perfect storm, obviously.
It had to be like the adrenaline rush. Yeah.
But yeah, no, I did that. And I kind of like sat there.
I was like, whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
What just happened? Yo, Mack McClung. Oh my God.
That dude's a beast. He's like, he's not that tall too.
No, no. He's, I think he's like below six foot.
What? That's insane, man. He's got bounce, jumping over cars and stuff.
I can't believe he's not in the league. Wait, what is he doing? He's in the G League, but like no team will give him a full spot.
It sucks. It's tough being an NBA player.
Only 450 spots. Yeah, dude.
I mean, that's the difference between like the NFL and like the NBA. Yeah.
There's so many different spots. NFL, there's thousands of spots, right? So many spots.
You got five starters on the court. Yeah.
And then you got three bench guys that get minutes and then the rest of the bench is not. No minutes.
Like not playing. That's probably the toughest sport to go pro in.
You have to be the best in the world. And it's like, and the thing about like, I guess you could say this with baseball as well, but like basketball is such an art form to where like, like when Kyrie Irving is like sizing someone up and like plotting those moves, if his hand goes this way, I go this way.
Yeah. That's an art form.
It is. It's like, it's not like I'm just tucking the ball and hitting you, you know? Like it's, it's, there's more skill, I'd say there's, it's like a, it's almost like you got to be like a ballerina.
Yeah. There's always that debate, like which sports more athletic basketball.
I think it's basketball. I think it is basketball.
I think, I think, I think you have to be like more of like gritty and like, or be able to hit someone like in football athletic wise. But like, like you have to do those like agility movements to where like your calves and your ankles are so strong yeah you can you can like dance on your feet yeah i used to roll with my ankle all the time i had to strengthen them up our coach our uh coach senior year he made us all get uh ankle ankle braces yeah i used to wear those but i hate wearing them i hate wearing them i feel like down a little bit.
It slows me down, messes me up. And I'm like, I was always the kid who prided himself on being the fastest.
Yeah. I played baseball from when I was nine to 16.
I never got thrown out in steel. Damn.
You were that fast? Never got thrown out in steel. Holy crap.
Yeah. So I was like the guy, like if I got on base, the pitcher's throwing balls because I'm messing with him.
like toying with toying with him like that was my favorite thing to do um but yeah so like be like having those ankle braces I was like oh bro like you're you're messing me up here yeah feel like you lose the stuff I know yeah for sure who's the GOAT of basketball oh that's tough man but I mean I go with Jordan bro okay I go with Jordan bro I thought you're gonna say LeBron for a sec I mean stats wise he's great but like I mean the 3P you think if LeBron gets a few more he can catch him that's a crazy debate I just think it's different times I just think it's different times I mean if LeB, I think that would solve the issue. But I don't think… I don't think he'll play three more years.
I don't think he will. He might get one this year, though.
They're looking good this year. Yeah, dude.
Luka? Yeah. They're the fourth seed right now.
That was a crazy trade. I saw that.
My friend was like, yo, Luka just got traded. And I was like, ha-ha.
And then he's like, no look. And I was like… Yeah.
I couldn't believe that one too. I was like, oh my gosh.
How did Mark let that happen? He's not part of it anymore. Well, he's got a little bit.
He's got a say in there. Yeah.
But I think he didn't even know about it. Really? Yeah.
I think he found out when everyone else did. Because he wouldn't have let it happen.
Oh, wow. Yeah.
Shout out to Mark though. Wow.
That's someone I look up to. He's my favorite shark.
100%. Oh, yeah.
I used to watch every episode and i only cared about what he said to be honest i mean like the other ones were okay but whenever he spoke everyone looked it's facts you know what i mean you can tell when when when the present shifts in a room with somebody when they speak yeah you can tell like who's really like the power in the room i mean he was great yeah he was the billionaire in the room i the room. I agree with that.
Yeah. Like whenever he speaks, everyone's listening.
Yep. And yeah, he's a dog, man.
Yeah. Shout out to him.
Well, dude, we'll ball next time you're out here. Any, anything you want to close off with here? Um, yeah.
So actually, um, doing Sip Skip allowed me to have, uh, make a lot of connections in the technology space. And, um, I actually started a tech company called Austrix with a couple of my coders.
And we have a team of 15 senior level coders. And we make apps, websites, and we do all the maintenance, the SEO for all that as well.
One thing that happened to me, so I was making an app for Hot Mess. And I made it through an app company.
And I had never been in the app space before. And I got a quote and I was like, okay, it's cool.
Like I can make this app for this much. Took way too long.
Took like a year and a half. And then I get a letter in the mail like when I have my beta saying or like an email saying, hey, we went out of business.
Here's your code. Never got on the app store.
Like, like 32K down the drain. Damn.
And so I got scammed by an app company. And so when I went on Bradley's podcast, a lot of people reached out to me with their app ideas and saying, hey, like, is this a good quote? Hey, can you make this app? Blah, blah, blah.
And one thing I found across all of these people is that they were getting scammed by the big app companies. It's because these big app companies have a lot of overhead to cover.
They have office spaces. They have big teams.
They're working on 70 projects at a time. If they want to do one meeting, they got to bring 10 different people into the meeting.
So they're basically making an app the cheapest way possible, pumping and dumping. And we at Ostricks, the reason why me and these guys started it is because I basically, it brought me back two and a half years to it being me.
And I was like, I want to help these people. So we at Ostrichs, we're cleaning up the app industry.

And if you have an app idea and you want to bring it to fruition,

go to Ostrichs.com or you can just reach out to me on Instagram.

And you can talk to us and we'll give you the real quote.

Perfect.

And we'll give you the real time.

We'll link that below.

That sounds useful, man.

And we'll link your social, SipSkip socials as well.

Yes, sir.

Perfect. Thanks for coming on, man.

Thanks for watching.

Thank you, man.