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Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Colleen Witt, and today we have very

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Speaker 1: special guests, entrepreneur Jillian Gates, owner of her ride in

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Speaker 1: the building. And yes we are not in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: We are over here hanging out at eighty five South

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Speaker 1: Studios this week, so you will see a lot of

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Speaker 1: eighty five South.

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Speaker 2: I love this kitchen so much, isn't it It's so cool?

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Speaker 2: Shout out SA eighty five South for hooking us up.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I love it so Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I feel like I.

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Speaker 1: Can come down to Atlanta anytime now, no sweat, like

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Speaker 1: we coming. We coming, So, Jillian, I'm happy to be

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Speaker 1: here with you. I'm very curious on what you're gonna

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Speaker 1: have me eating today.

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Speaker 4: It's gonna be good, I promise. What is it so

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Speaker 4: we are going to be preparing. I call it salmon

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Speaker 4: and rice. Salmon over rice. It's very simple. Before I

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Speaker 4: got introduced to the filet salmon, this is the salmon

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Speaker 4: that I grew up on.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, whenever I see you can meet after being on

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Speaker 1: Eating While Broke.

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Speaker 3: Can meat can scare you, understood.

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Speaker 2: I've seen people eat it with no heat. I wonder

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Speaker 2: how they did that.

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Speaker 1: The only can I eat out of a can prior

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Speaker 1: to eating while broke.

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Speaker 3: Was tuna, I understood.

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Speaker 1: I never heard of eating chicken out of a can,

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Speaker 1: salmon out of a can. I eat oysters out of

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Speaker 1: a can. I think I've done that before, you know,

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Speaker 1: but sardines maybe once.

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Speaker 2: In a while.

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Speaker 3: It's so good.

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Speaker 1: But after doing a lot of episodes of eating while broke,

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Speaker 1: can meat scares me.

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Speaker 2: So what are the ingredients for your dish?

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Speaker 4: So the ingredients for this dish would be your simple

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Speaker 4: butter of course, your can, say, an egg, and then

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Speaker 4: some bacon.

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Speaker 3: So bacon is for taste.

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right? So oh and Rice, I'm and Rice

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Speaker 2: and Rice.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so go ahead, you can start making this beautiful

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Speaker 1: dish that I'm a.

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Speaker 2: Little scared to eat. I got faith in you, scared,

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Speaker 2: I promise I. So take me back to do you

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Speaker 2: need a butter knife?

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we got a butter.

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Speaker 2: Knife over here.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: I love how eighty five. So I'll set this up.

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Speaker 1: By the way, I got a shout out some again.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, sure, take me back to what's going on

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Speaker 2: in the land of canned salmon?

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Speaker 3: So hold on, let me make sure we're all right here.

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Speaker 4: So in the land of can salmon. So I was

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Speaker 4: introduced to this dish middle school, high school ish. I

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Speaker 4: played three sports in school, and so feeding me as

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Speaker 4: a as a growing teenager can be kind of expensive.

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Speaker 4: And so when I wasn't eating at school and my

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Speaker 4: mom didn't have time, you know, to cook something, you know,

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Speaker 4: a large mirror large meal for us, this was one

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Speaker 3: She will cook this or either be u.

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Speaker 4: She would go to Kroger and get one of those

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Speaker 4: little tisstery chickens and we would just tear it down.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, this will be one of those go two meals.

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Speaker 4: It's high in protein. You got your rice for your carbs,

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Speaker 4: you got your egg I mean, and then you got

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Speaker 4: your bacon for taste. So I mean, you can't go

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Speaker 3: It yeah, a little salt and pepper. Really it's the juice.

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Speaker 3: It's the juice.

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Speaker 4: And if we had raw bacon, it's the bacon grease

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Speaker 4: that makes it. That's what that's what that's what puts

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Speaker 4: the taste. So you don't really need any seasoning. It's

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Speaker 4: the juice from the can, the juice from the meat,

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Speaker 4: and then the grease from the bacon.

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Speaker 3: Okay, and then that egg too.

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Speaker 2: Okay, we go see you gona scrambled egg.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's gonna scramble it, but it's gonna be mixed

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Speaker 3: I promise it's gonna be good. It's gonna be good.

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Speaker 3: I got you, I got you. I won't let you down.

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Speaker 2: We gonna see how good it is? All right? Uh So,

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Speaker 2: take so were you single parent household? Two parent household?

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Speaker 3: So I grew up in a two parent household.

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Speaker 4: But my dad passed away when I was well. So

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Speaker 4: he died the day after my birthday. He had leukemia,

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Speaker 4: and so that was a very traumatic experience for me.

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Speaker 3: Kind of grew me up really quick. I had to

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Speaker 3: really grow up.

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Speaker 4: A lot of people that meet me, they think that

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Speaker 4: I'm a lot older than what I am, because I

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Speaker 4: guess I'm a little wiser for my years. When my

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Speaker 4: dad passed away, I just realized that I needed to

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Speaker 4: be the one to you know, I felt like I

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Speaker 4: didn't need to be like the man of the house

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Speaker 4: or whatever they would say. But because I was the

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Speaker 4: oldest sibling, I felt like I needed to be the

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Speaker 4: most responsible.

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Speaker 2: How many siblings.

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Speaker 3: Only have one sibling? So I have a younger brother.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's not bad. Somebody could beat up on too.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, did he outgrow you?

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Speaker 4: He ended up outlowing me, but after it wasn't until

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Speaker 4: I left to go to college.

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Speaker 2: So he actually shocked me.

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Speaker 4: When I came back home. I came back home, he

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Speaker 4: was taller at me. I was like, Wow, I didn't

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Speaker 2: But I have a baby brother that's taller than me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but key word baby brother. He's like in his

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Speaker 1: thirties now, and I'm like.

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Speaker 3: He will always be a baby, always be a baby.

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Speaker 2: What's the age gap?

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Speaker 3: Three years?

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Speaker 2: Oh that's not bad. Ye, Like that's like.

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Speaker 3: Little brother, real little brother for real.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so you took on helping mama out a little

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Speaker 1: bit more passed.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I actually got my first job in seventh grade. Well,

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Speaker 4: not in seventh grade, might have been in eighth grade.

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Speaker 4: But one of my first jobs was at a fish market.

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Speaker 4: There was a guy that went to our church that

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Speaker 4: opened up a fish market, and my mom started helping

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Speaker 3: He paid under the table.

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Speaker 4: I want to say that summer after that, I got

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Speaker 4: my first job helping another member at the church.

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Speaker 4: I started working with her doing that and she paid

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Speaker 4: me under the table as well. So I like started

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Speaker 4: working in middle school and like was just super focused

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Speaker 4: on like making money in middle school. Yeah, but yeah,

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Speaker 4: that's where that started for me.

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Speaker 2: Did you grow up in a family with entrepreneurs I didn't.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't.

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Speaker 4: I don't have many. I don't have many entrepreneurs, if any, Okay,

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Speaker 4: I'm not.

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Speaker 3: I'm trying to think about it. I really can't think

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Speaker 3: of any that you didn't.

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Speaker 2: You didn't cross the path of any on your way

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Speaker 4: Nope, okay, I'm not not.

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Speaker 3: Not not my personal family members.

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Speaker 2: No, okay.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I used to have a theory that entrepreneurs kind of

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Speaker 1: had to come from some kind of lineage of of

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Speaker 1: entrepreneurship because because the traditional route, which is always cultered.

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Speaker 2: I love how you guys are because I was thinking

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Speaker 2: the same thing.

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Speaker 1: Uh, the traditional route, I always feel is like you

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Speaker 1: have to kind of see someone kind of in that

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Speaker 1: lane first before becoming one. So is her ride your

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Speaker 1: very first entrepreneur adventure?

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Speaker 3: It is not.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so you not only did not experience any entrepreneurs

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Speaker 1: but this isn't your first, It is.

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Speaker 3: Not my first venture. I've been an entrepreneur.

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Speaker 4: I would say my first entrepreneur a venture started when

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Speaker 4: I was in high school. Okay, yeah, started selling care

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Speaker 4: and in high school. That was an interesting story. I

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Speaker 4: don't know if my mom knows about this or not,

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Speaker 4: but yeah, so the candy we sold in high school,

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Speaker 4: we actually stole it all.

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Speaker 1: And stole it from where from Walmart? And you would

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Speaker 1: steal the case packs or the little snicker Bars packs.

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Speaker 1: I just want to make sure you're getting the bulk

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Speaker 1: and are you stealing both candies?

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Speaker 3: We just put them in our book bag and we

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Speaker 3: just walked up the store. Okay, I'm pretty sure this

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Speaker 4: Okay, so yeah, we just said we as in my

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Speaker 3: It was one hundred profit.

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Speaker 2: Yeah that's not that's that's not entrepreneurship. That's called hustling.

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Speaker 1: Just so you know, I have a firm belief that

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Speaker 1: in business, all parties have to win. Otherwise you just

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Speaker 1: swindles somebody and you are a successful Swindler at eighth grade.

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Speaker 2: That's good. That's good. That's a good start.

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Speaker 4: So that was my intro. When I got to college,

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Speaker 4: I cleaned it up a lot. I actually got into

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Speaker 4: designing hat lids, so snapback hats got really popular. I

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Speaker 4: graduated high school around twenty ten, so from twenty ten

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Speaker 4: Tisa that came out and they just they just decided

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Speaker 3: So I started doing that.

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Speaker 4: I think I did it for about ten dollars when

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Speaker 4: it got fabric, would put it on people's hats for them.

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Speaker 4: But that was my first intro into entrepreneurship. And then

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Speaker 4: while I was in college as well, I taught myself

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Speaker 4: how to cut hair. I became a resident assistant, and

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Speaker 4: so because I was a resident assistant, I had access

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Speaker 4: to all of the freshman guys that lived there because

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Speaker 4: we had a co ed dorm and co yes, I

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Speaker 4: was already and a co ed dorm. Half of the

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Speaker 4: building was girls. Half of them are guys, and.

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Speaker 3: They were all freshman. The dumbest idea ever.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, I learned how to cut hair and yeah

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Speaker 4: that's uh. I taught myself how to cut hair from

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Speaker 4: watching YouTube videos. So that is that's that's where entrepreneurship.

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Speaker 4: I guess that's where it really started. That's where it

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Speaker 2: Learned how to cut here from a YouTube video.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, trial and error and YouTube. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Only imagine a guy being so pissed off at you

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Speaker 1: for messing up his hair.

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Speaker 4: So my brother thanks to him. You know, my brother

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Speaker 4: let me try out on him a few times. But

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Speaker 4: I'm very, very particular, so I was just scared to

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Speaker 3: I'm the CTO.

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Speaker 2: You're the CTO after six months of boot camp?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well I got my degree in computer science.

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Speaker 4: But I was living with a roommate, so I was

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Speaker 1: you're making is from like the liveries.

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Speaker 2: And stuff like that.

451
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Speaker 1: Yeah, So how long How many years of savings did

452
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Speaker 1: you have to do to get her rights?

453
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Speaker 2: Source?

454
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Speaker 4: It actually took me. I did it with less than

455
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Speaker 4: ten thousand dollars. It was like it was less than

456
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Speaker 4: half of year. It was like half of a year's savings. Okay, yeah,

457
00:19:51,359 --> 00:19:52,720
Speaker 4: it didn't take me that long to get it.

458
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Speaker 1: Okay, so you get you get the money together. You

459
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Speaker 1: you now have the application. Now as a CTO, are

460
00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:06,040
Speaker 1: you bringing on some kind of officer to.

461
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Speaker 2: Help market because you see, the CTO doesn't.

462
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Speaker 4: So that's what I was looking for next, with somebody

463
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Speaker 4: to sell it. I was looking for a co founder.

464
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Speaker 4: And so the first person I originally brought on. They

465
00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:19,359
Speaker 4: they were older than me. They're older, older black women.

466
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Speaker 4: They they they're their I guess their experience was more

467
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Speaker 4: so in like the in like lobbying, in like the

468
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Speaker 4: political field, in politics, and so that's where their experience

469
00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:36,360
Speaker 4: lied in. They didn't end up working out because the

470
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Speaker 4: person that ended up being my next co founder, she

471
00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:41,879
Speaker 4: got jealous of her because I was bringing her in

472
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Speaker 4: for marketing like marketing and advertising because she was more

473
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Speaker 4: so skilled in social media and so we needed to

474
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Speaker 4: have our name more out there on social media. So

475
00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:52,040
Speaker 4: I was bringing her in, and so the first co

476
00:20:52,119 --> 00:20:54,520
Speaker 4: founder actually didn't work out because she got jealous of

477
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Speaker 4: the second person. Second person stayed on for about a year,

478
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Speaker 4: so brought her in twenty twenty one. No, twenty twenty

479
00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:17,640
Speaker 4: brought her in twenty twenty. She stayed for a year,

480
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Speaker 4: almost two years, and then quit. So she quit abruptly

481
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Speaker 4: on me in February twenty twenty two. She felt like

482
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Speaker 4: I was pushing her out the company, but it was

483
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Speaker 4: only US two, so I don't know how that was possible.

484
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Speaker 1: So why did you go the co founder route instead

485
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Speaker 1: of like maybe contract to hire.

486
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Speaker 4: So it's easier to uh, when you're when you're a

487
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Speaker 4: tech company and your app and you're trying to get

488
00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:44,040
Speaker 4: funding or raise funding, it's easier to get funding if

489
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Speaker 4: you have a co founder.

490
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Speaker 1: So you were trying to raise capital after getting co

491
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Speaker 1: founders yep, So you were also the CEO okay, so

492
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Speaker 1: CEO CEO, and then you're looking for a CMO yep, okay, so.

493
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Speaker 2: Who are you hitting up?

494
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Speaker 1: Are you hitting up angel investors or venture capitalists at

495
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Speaker 1: this point?

496
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Speaker 4: So at first I originally started by like contacting vcs,

497
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Speaker 4: but then I realized that, like when I decided to

498
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Speaker 4: start my app, the economy was also shifting. So right

499
00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:19,359
Speaker 4: before I decided to start my app, vcs were throwing

500
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Speaker 4: money left and.

501
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Speaker 3: Right to anybody with an idea. You got an idea.

502
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Speaker 3: They think it's good enough, they're gonna give you money.

503
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Speaker 1: For it, but your idea it's weird. I don't know

504
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Speaker 1: how vcs handle this situation, because do you technically have

505
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Speaker 1: these uber you have lift these platforms, and then you're saying, well,

506
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Speaker 1: out of this sector, you know, I'm going to carve

507
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Speaker 1: out this this woman, this woman light. Now I heard

508
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Speaker 1: that there's a car right service for children, right, but

509
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Speaker 1: you decide that this organization that you're building is also

510
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Speaker 1: going to be all female contractors.

511
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Speaker 3: All women drivers, no male.

512
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Speaker 2: And there was no legality issues in.

513
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Speaker 4: That, Nope, because of because of how gig workers or

514
00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:05,280
Speaker 4: ride share drivers are placed in terms of employment. So

515
00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:08,080
Speaker 4: they're ten ninety nine independent contractors.

516
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Speaker 1: So you could you could technically be discriminative towards them.

517
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Speaker 2: I hate to say that word. I'm trying to find

518
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Speaker 2: a nicer word.

519
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Speaker 4: So basically, I can we have the right to choose

520
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Speaker 4: who we can and who we do and who we

521
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Speaker 4: don't want to hire as contractors.

522
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Speaker 3: We do have the right to choose that.

523
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Speaker 2: But that's interesting.

524
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Speaker 1: So in your companies based in Atlanta and there's no

525
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Speaker 1: regulations on whether you can hire Nope, because.

526
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Speaker 4: They're if they're if they are labeled ten ninety nine,

527
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Speaker 4: there are no there are no regulations around that now.

528
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Speaker 4: So these people that drive for her ride are not

529
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Speaker 4: W two employees, they are ten ninety nine contractors.

530
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're ten ninety nine.

531
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Speaker 1: But I'm surprised that there's no legalities in discrimination on that.

532
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Speaker 3: Nope.

533
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Speaker 4: There's a guy that already reached out to the EOC

534
00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:56,960
Speaker 4: courtesy you know, you know, because people are going to

535
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Speaker 4: do that. But he decided to make up a story

536
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Speaker 4: and say that we didn't hire him. He never even

537
00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:04,040
Speaker 4: applied to her ride, but he just made up a

538
00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:07,000
Speaker 4: story said that I'd said that we don't hire men,

539
00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:09,040
Speaker 4: and that I, you know, we don't, you know, we

540
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Speaker 4: don't hire men for our platform.

541
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Speaker 3: I end up having to spend about five thousand dollars

542
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Speaker 3: to fight.

543
00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:16,719
Speaker 4: That case, and the EEOC, which is the federal government,

544
00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:19,440
Speaker 4: found us in no wrongdoing when it comes to discrimination.

545
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Speaker 1: So yeah, because your hyper niche is like your I

546
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Speaker 1: guess your appeal is that you're creating a safe space

547
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Speaker 1: for women, yep.

548
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Speaker 2: And so.

549
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Speaker 4: And also there are two other companies that control ninety

550
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Speaker 4: eight percent of the market in ride share that exists,

551
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Speaker 4: So it's not like I'm the only ride share company

552
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Speaker 4: that exists. If I was the only ride share company

553
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Speaker 4: that existed and then I'm doing what I'm doing, then yes.

554
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Speaker 3: There will be an issue.

555
00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:47,080
Speaker 4: But because there are more than there are other companies

556
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Speaker 4: that exist besides me, there's.

557
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Speaker 2: Now how do you handle the transgender situation with that?

558
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Speaker 4: So we are still working through the details of it,

559
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Speaker 4: but I've met I've had a couple of meetings so far,

560
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Speaker 4: because there are some people that I personally know that

561
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Speaker 4: have transitioned and so they we have well we've already

562
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Speaker 4: discussed what it is that they're looking for when it

563
00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:09,959
Speaker 4: comes to just doing gigwork or what is it they

564
00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:13,120
Speaker 4: expect out of us as a company. And so I've

565
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:17,359
Speaker 4: been told that they just want jobs. They just want

566
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Speaker 4: somewhere to work, because trying to get hired when you are,

567
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Speaker 4: when you're in that category, it's very difficult just trying

568
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Speaker 4: to get any type of employment.

569
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Speaker 2: But how would you how how do you?

570
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Speaker 3: I guess, so right now we got to go by

571
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Speaker 3: the book.

572
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Speaker 2: So go a by the book is like what you're

573
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Speaker 2: born as is what.

574
00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:36,600
Speaker 3: Well, what's on your driver's license?

575
00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:38,280
Speaker 2: Oh, what's on your drivers license?

576
00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:39,359
Speaker 3: What's on your driver's license.

577
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Speaker 4: And I mean people have told me like, oh, you

578
00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:43,399
Speaker 4: can get your drop, you can get your sex changed

579
00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:45,680
Speaker 4: and different in different states, and all this other stuff.

580
00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:48,639
Speaker 4: I'm like, well, I believe there's paperwork that's associated with that.

581
00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:51,240
Speaker 4: I don't think you can just go to the DMV

582
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Speaker 4: and say hey, i'm a I'm a man now and

583
00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:56,360
Speaker 4: hey i'm a woman now. Now I can get some

584
00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:58,399
Speaker 4: more clarification on that. But like I said, after the

585
00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:01,640
Speaker 4: conversations I've had, it's not just as simple as going

586
00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:03,639
Speaker 4: to the d m B and saying that, okay, so

587
00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:06,240
Speaker 4: but right now, there's other things that have to take

588
00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:07,240
Speaker 4: place before you do that.

589
00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:11,120
Speaker 1: So right now, transgendered is like in that it's you're

590
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:14,080
Speaker 1: not fully accepting it yet, but you're trying to figure

591
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Speaker 1: out when.

592
00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:18,480
Speaker 4: We are accepting or people that are fully transitioned. So

593
00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:21,000
Speaker 4: what we're trying to what we're trying to work out

594
00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:23,600
Speaker 4: right now is people that are in transition. So the

595
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Speaker 4: people that haven't gotten to the finish line, the people

596
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Speaker 4: that haven't gotten to the.

597
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Speaker 1: Point transitioned, you can be considered, oh, child, I'm the

598
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Speaker 1: wrong one to have this conversation. This is this is

599
00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:40,080
Speaker 1: it's a touchy subject because you know, I believe that

600
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Speaker 1: we'll make women women. Isn't just a lady and mail

601
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Speaker 1: parts man. We got that at one time of the month,

602
00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:49,600
Speaker 1: we give birth and all that stuff.

603
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Speaker 2: So it's very tricky. It is tricky, tricky land. Okay,

604
00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:58,199
Speaker 2: so is your meal done? Serve me up, Serve me up,

605
00:26:58,280 --> 00:26:59,680
Speaker 2: serve you up. Let's serve you up.

606
00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:01,959
Speaker 3: Let's get you right, all right.

607
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:07,400
Speaker 1: Uh So, one of the clips that I had caught

608
00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 1: online I think someone had DM me, was this clip

609
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:14,679
Speaker 1: of you, uh interviewing about the Atlanta Airport trying to

610
00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:20,040
Speaker 1: get uh your name recognized with the lifts and the

611
00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:23,080
Speaker 1: ubers and the other ride share companies. Was were you

612
00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:26,239
Speaker 1: the one leading that or was H Did you have

613
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:27,720
Speaker 1: your partner or someone lead.

614
00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:28,800
Speaker 3: That both both of us.

615
00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:30,280
Speaker 2: I was.

616
00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:33,439
Speaker 4: I was the I was definitely spearhead, spearheading the social

617
00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:34,879
Speaker 4: media campaign aspect of it.

618
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:37,520
Speaker 3: But she was behind the scenes doing all the emailing.

619
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Speaker 3: I'm not good at doing all of the all of

620
00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:41,000
Speaker 3: the corporate communication.

621
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Speaker 4: She did all that, but I was the person on

622
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:46,560
Speaker 4: the ground, like letting everybody know, rallying the troops like, hey,

623
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:48,320
Speaker 4: I feel like this is not fair.

624
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:51,040
Speaker 3: I feel like you know, don't y'all think the same thing.

625
00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:54,679
Speaker 4: And you know a lot of people online they rallied

626
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:58,480
Speaker 4: behind us, and they really helped get that get that

627
00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:00,919
Speaker 4: that airport signage up because we actually been talking with

628
00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:04,320
Speaker 4: them about that since j're live last year. So you know,

629
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:06,639
Speaker 4: they've been telling us that it was temporary and da

630
00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:09,240
Speaker 4: Dad this, and that they'll be they'll be doing you know,

631
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:11,040
Speaker 4: what they need to do, and that you know, the

632
00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:11,960
Speaker 4: signs will be changed.

633
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:13,280
Speaker 3: And I'm like, all right, well, I'd have.

634
00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:15,720
Speaker 4: Missed the holiday season, which is the busiest time for

635
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:18,760
Speaker 4: ride share, and you guys still haven't changed the signage.

636
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:21,159
Speaker 4: So I'm gonna need something to happen around you know,

637
00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:24,480
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go to phase two. Phase two is me

638
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:28,879
Speaker 4: getting hiring a group of well, hiring a group of

639
00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:32,480
Speaker 4: volunteers to call the airport every hour on the hour

640
00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:33,560
Speaker 4: and ask them, you know.

641
00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:34,960
Speaker 3: Hey, where's where's her rode?

642
00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:37,000
Speaker 4: I heard there's a new rod Shair app available, but

643
00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:38,280
Speaker 4: I don't see it anywhere in the airport.

644
00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 3: I'm in the airport right now, I don't see it.

645
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:41,720
Speaker 3: Where How do I get to rod Shair in section?

646
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:45,160
Speaker 2: Did you guys end up raising the capital that you needed.

647
00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:49,120
Speaker 4: So we still trying to raise. So let me be clear,

648
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:51,120
Speaker 4: we are still trying to raise. We actually have only

649
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:54,080
Speaker 4: done family and friends rounds. We've done a total of

650
00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:56,920
Speaker 4: about seventy five thousand with that, and then I also.

651
00:28:57,480 --> 00:28:59,720
Speaker 2: Doing family and friends. You have some good family and friends.

652
00:28:59,880 --> 00:29:02,480
Speaker 3: We did two separate rounds, so we do. Yeah, I do.

653
00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:04,160
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna lie. I do have some great family

654
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:06,880
Speaker 4: and friends. I appreciate every single person that donates. I'm

655
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:08,360
Speaker 4: not donated, but invested.

656
00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:08,720
Speaker 3: In her ride.

657
00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:12,840
Speaker 4: But yeah, we uh. After the seventy five thousand, We've

658
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:16,160
Speaker 4: also won about forty thousand grants, so I'm constantly applying

659
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:19,640
Speaker 4: to grant for grants and participating in pitch competitions as well.

660
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:23,520
Speaker 1: Okay, are you able to fully fund your yourself or

661
00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:25,760
Speaker 1: do you still have to do some kind of side hustling.

662
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:28,480
Speaker 2: I still work, I still work for you still work

663
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:31,640
Speaker 2: full time? Wow? Okay, what is the bacon for in this?

664
00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:35,440
Speaker 4: So the bacon was I lost my train of thought talking.

665
00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 4: But this bacon was supposed to be crumbled up and

666
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Speaker 4: put into.

667
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:41,440
Speaker 2: A piece of bacon. I'm gonna try and make make.

668
00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:43,000
Speaker 3: Shift the heck out of your dish.

669
00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:45,600
Speaker 2: We need your mama and said, I know.

670
00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 3: She over there shaking her head at me.

671
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 2: She like, girl, girl, Let's see. Let's see what can

672
00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:55,280
Speaker 2: salmon and bacon and rice and what you had me

673
00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:57,480
Speaker 2: eating here with salt and pepper.

674
00:29:57,240 --> 00:29:58,080
Speaker 3: With salt and pepper.

675
00:29:58,680 --> 00:29:59,120
Speaker 2: Let's see.

676
00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:01,720
Speaker 3: I'm try put sugar on mind, but everybody don't do

677
00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:02,080
Speaker 3: what I do.

678
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:05,160
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you didn't put sugar on this. I'm

679
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:06,240
Speaker 1: losing faith by the second.

680
00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:10,280
Speaker 2: I wish. Second, I wish your mama was here, shut out.

681
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:12,040
Speaker 2: Look at her, she's stressed.

682
00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:12,720
Speaker 3: Out over there.

683
00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:17,360
Speaker 1: Hold on, cheers, you got it. Chairs to the grandma

684
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:19,920
Speaker 1: praying for us. Should have had her uppears.

685
00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:21,400
Speaker 3: Nah, it's it.

686
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:23,440
Speaker 2: Let's see, here we go.

687
00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:26,240
Speaker 3: It's good. That's the egg. They really do it. That's crazy.

688
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:31,680
Speaker 3: You don't like it. I like it, mom.

689
00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 2: Mmmm.

690
00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:33,960
Speaker 3: It still tastes fine to me.

691
00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:36,560
Speaker 1: Let's try it without the bacon, because I think if

692
00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:47,680
Speaker 1: it wasn't for this bacon, it would be okay. Yeah, guys,

693
00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:50,040
Speaker 1: if you if you starving at home and you ain't

694
00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:53,640
Speaker 1: got nothing to eat, your mama knew how to stretch

695
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:53,960
Speaker 1: a dollar.

696
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:59,000
Speaker 3: All right, I'm telling you. Feels you up.

697
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:04,560
Speaker 2: You know I had was it ripped. Michael No Carlos

698
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:07,560
Speaker 2: Hayes comedian here had to see like tunea on rice.

699
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:10,760
Speaker 3: See, I feel like tun is such a stronger fish taste.

700
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:15,760
Speaker 1: Look, I'm sorry. Yeah, I'm gonna have to have your

701
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:23,320
Speaker 1: mom cook this dish because understood, Yeah, just a broke dish.

702
00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:27,520
Speaker 2: It's a broke dish. This dish is what like five

703
00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:30,800
Speaker 2: dollars and confeed the whole family. Yeah, your mom did it?

704
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:31,800
Speaker 2: Pass me? All that bacon?

705
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:37,400
Speaker 3: All the bacon. Bacon is where it's at good, But

706
00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:39,480
Speaker 3: I don't know if I don't know, to me the

707
00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 3: bacon needs to be Michael waves. Still I've cooked up

708
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:44,760
Speaker 3: some mom. I don't like him. I like crispy bacon.

709
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 2: Yeah.

710
00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:47,320
Speaker 3: All right.

711
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 2: So you're in the middle of work, in hustling. What

712
00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 2: is your thoughts? Is there days that you wake up

713
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:55,600
Speaker 2: and you're like, I should give up?

714
00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:56,160
Speaker 3: Yes?

715
00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:57,800
Speaker 2: Yes, how often?

716
00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:00,560
Speaker 3: M about one the season?

717
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:04,080
Speaker 4: About once a season, it's starting to feel like I

718
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:08,480
Speaker 4: got seasonal depression or something. But usually when whenever we

719
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:12,200
Speaker 4: whenever we get hit with a no, I just take it.

720
00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:13,200
Speaker 3: I just take it so personal.

721
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 4: It's not it's not anything against I know that we're

722
00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:18,360
Speaker 4: gonna get told no all the time, but sometimes we

723
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:21,479
Speaker 4: have We'll be going on such a high we get

724
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:24,280
Speaker 4: hit with like a crazy no that I wasn't expecting,

725
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:26,320
Speaker 4: and then it just kind of kills my mood.

726
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:28,080
Speaker 3: But yeah, I would say about once in.

727
00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:29,480
Speaker 2: Season I have.

728
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:32,960
Speaker 1: I've been teaching a class. I do this in my

729
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:36,520
Speaker 1: free time, which I don't really have free time, but

730
00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:40,440
Speaker 1: I'm really passionate about entrepreneurship and I teach this course

731
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 1: on mindset of entrepreneurs and one of the things I

732
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:48,959
Speaker 1: teach is, you know, you count your nose because the

733
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:50,800
Speaker 1: more nos you get, the closer you get to it.

734
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:51,040
Speaker 2: Yes.

735
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 1: Yes, and a lot of time in entrepreneurship. I don't

736
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:56,760
Speaker 1: know the statistics, but I need to incorporate in my

737
00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:58,640
Speaker 1: class that the suicide rate on.

738
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:02,600
Speaker 2: The entrepreneurs is actually pretty high.

739
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:08,320
Speaker 1: And you know, you have to be insane to start

740
00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:11,640
Speaker 1: a business most of the time, and to keep that

741
00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:15,280
Speaker 1: level of insanity in the world that has bills and

742
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 1: peers and shit.

743
00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:20,720
Speaker 2: Social media makes it even harder. It's it's hard to.

744
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:26,680
Speaker 1: It's really hard to not not you know, get into

745
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:27,600
Speaker 1: that negative space.

746
00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:28,680
Speaker 3: I agree.

747
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:31,840
Speaker 2: So, are you reinvesting your checks all the time into the.

748
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:35,880
Speaker 3: Business, Yes, constantly. I currently still live with my mom.

749
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:38,520
Speaker 4: Now I'm still I am trying to save up to

750
00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 4: buy to get to purchase my own on if they

751
00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:44,200
Speaker 4: would just relax with the with the home prices.

752
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:47,400
Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm the home prices of the whole home

753
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:48,480
Speaker 1: interest rates.

754
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:50,400
Speaker 3: Just the interest rates and prices in general.

755
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:54,240
Speaker 4: But but yeah, I put all my money into her Ride.

756
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:56,000
Speaker 3: It's my baby, Okay.

757
00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and you're still in year three. Two, I

758
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:02,600
Speaker 2: am me in year three now, yeah, you're in the heart,

759
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:03,960
Speaker 2: but you got through the first part.

760
00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:07,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, have you thought about reaching out to

761
00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:11,560
Speaker 1: the ride share of the ride share competitors.

762
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:15,239
Speaker 4: No, because they've been watching me this entire time. The

763
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:17,759
Speaker 4: day before the day before the airport dropped our press

764
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:21,240
Speaker 4: release last year, Liff actually dropped a press release saying

765
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:22,840
Speaker 4: that they were going to be dropping the women plus

766
00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:26,960
Speaker 4: Connect feature. So what's that that's there? That's their version

767
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:31,000
Speaker 4: of her Ride. So basically you can if you're in

768
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:33,600
Speaker 4: whatever cities that they're doing it in, you can have

769
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:35,239
Speaker 4: you can just put it's like a button that they

770
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:39,680
Speaker 4: have on there and it basically filters out vers. But

771
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:42,120
Speaker 4: if there are no women drivers available in your area,

772
00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:43,279
Speaker 4: you'll still get a mail driver.

773
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:46,400
Speaker 3: So it's not one hundred proof.

774
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:49,000
Speaker 4: It's not one hundred percent like like you're only going

775
00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:49,879
Speaker 4: to get a woman driver.

776
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:53,799
Speaker 1: Do you feel pressure because you raised a capital from

777
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:54,640
Speaker 1: friends and family?

778
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 3: I do this year?

779
00:34:56,520 --> 00:34:59,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, why just due to the terms of the invest

780
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,480
Speaker 4: I really want to start generating more revenue so that

781
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:05,839
Speaker 4: they can actually have a dividend payout. But it's more

782
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:07,880
Speaker 4: so just pressure that I'm putting on myself so that

783
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:10,680
Speaker 4: we can start making more money.

784
00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:15,839
Speaker 1: As far as people adopting the platform, what are your

785
00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:16,560
Speaker 1: numbers looking like?

786
00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:17,279
Speaker 2: Are you able to.

787
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:20,480
Speaker 4: Say, oh, yeah, I can say we have about almost

788
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:22,840
Speaker 4: twenty thousand people on the platform. In terms of the

789
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:25,680
Speaker 4: customer side, I have about almost forty thousand people that

790
00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:28,319
Speaker 4: have downloaded the app from just they just have it

791
00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:31,319
Speaker 4: on their phone. We have about two hundred and fifty

792
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:35,400
Speaker 4: drivers and we have completed over three thousand trips since

793
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:36,160
Speaker 4: we have.

794
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:38,200
Speaker 3: Been on money. Good thank you.

795
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:41,680
Speaker 2: So how are you spearheading growing that?

796
00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:42,359
Speaker 3: So?

797
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:46,480
Speaker 4: Growth is my main focus is the airport. So the

798
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:49,839
Speaker 4: airport actually receives about forty six thousand rideshare requests a week.

799
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:53,200
Speaker 4: That's why we're so gun ho on them, putting our

800
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:55,680
Speaker 4: name up on the signage because I want to capture

801
00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:57,680
Speaker 4: at least ten percent of that. If we capture at

802
00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 4: least ten percent of that, we'll be pulling in close

803
00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:04,719
Speaker 4: to a million in a year. Okay, yeah, a million net.

804
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:07,440
Speaker 4: And that's that's us paying our drivers eighty percent. That's

805
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:08,480
Speaker 4: on an eighty twenty split.

806
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 2: Okay. Is there any other things you can do to

807
00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:13,279
Speaker 2: partner with the airport too?

808
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 4: Partnering Well, outside of just the permit that we have,

809
00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:19,080
Speaker 4: there's nothing we can advertise inside the airport, but it's

810
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:22,120
Speaker 4: too expensive to do that. We are also focused on

811
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:25,960
Speaker 4: getting a lot of MoU agreements with just different organizations

812
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 4: around Atlanta. So the first nonprofit that we partnered up

813
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:32,719
Speaker 4: with is Common Courtesy. They schedule rise your rides for

814
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:35,680
Speaker 4: senior citizens and so senior citizen calls their line and

815
00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:36,200
Speaker 4: then they.

816
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:39,000
Speaker 3: Book the ride for them. Yeah, at like a way

817
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:39,680
Speaker 3: cheaper cost.

818
00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:44,719
Speaker 4: And so partnering up with nonprofit organizations, organizations that deal

819
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:48,560
Speaker 4: with women, people, that shelter women, children, kids where I'm

820
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:51,279
Speaker 4: really interested in getting in the school system. I have

821
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:53,920
Speaker 4: this great idea where I want to utilize the substitute

822
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:57,520
Speaker 4: teachers convert them into drivers so that students can get

823
00:36:57,560 --> 00:37:00,640
Speaker 4: to and from school properly without having to wait all

824
00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:01,280
Speaker 4: day for their.

825
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:01,839
Speaker 3: Parents to come.

826
00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 4: Basically like have it part of the after school program.

827
00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 4: And yeah, so those are my three main sectors right now.

828
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:11,640
Speaker 4: And then nightlife as well, trying to infiltrate the ninth

829
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:12,320
Speaker 4: life scene.

830
00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 2: Okay, and then what other jobs are you working outside

831
00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:16,040
Speaker 2: of the application.

832
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:18,440
Speaker 3: You're talking about just all out of her ride for you?

833
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:20,440
Speaker 3: What do I do? So?

834
00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:23,920
Speaker 4: I do it support. So I'm a state employee, but

835
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 4: I do it support. It's very simple. I just reset

836
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 4: passwords all day. I'm actually held two of those jobs.

837
00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 4: Last year, I had two full time jobs. I'm probably

838
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:34,120
Speaker 4: I'm trying to get another one. I'm not gonna lie

839
00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:36,839
Speaker 4: to you just because we need to. I just want

840
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:38,840
Speaker 4: to make sure that we're good for the next few months.

841
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:41,600
Speaker 4: But yeah, that's what I do. I do very simple

842
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:42,600
Speaker 4: it support work.

843
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:45,480
Speaker 1: On the money side, are your rides competitive to a

844
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 1: certain degree to lift in the uber and those guys.

845
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:50,759
Speaker 4: Yeah, so we we only charge about I charged about

846
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:53,720
Speaker 4: eighty something since per mile in like sixteenth cent a minute.

847
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:56,680
Speaker 4: It's around it's a little bit over a dollar a

848
00:37:56,760 --> 00:37:58,759
Speaker 4: mile when you add it up. It's a lot cheaper

849
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:01,080
Speaker 4: than Uber and Lyft and we don't. So whenever you

850
00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:04,080
Speaker 4: if you ever search for us the ride, that ride

851
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:06,759
Speaker 4: price is gonna always be that ride price. What do

852
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:08,960
Speaker 4: you mean in terms of just time of day? So

853
00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:10,799
Speaker 4: there could be a time of day that you are

854
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:12,640
Speaker 4: trying to get a ride on an Uber Lyft and

855
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:14,640
Speaker 4: it'll be ten or fifteen dollars more than what it

856
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:16,280
Speaker 4: normally is just due to the search.

857
00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:20,200
Speaker 1: Now do when Uber and Lyft do that, does that

858
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:22,680
Speaker 1: mean that the driver makes more money or just Uber.

859
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:23,239
Speaker 2: And Lyft make more money?

860
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:24,400
Speaker 3: Uber and Lyft make more money?

861
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:27,600
Speaker 1: Okay, So on your application, your drivers are they making

862
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:29,520
Speaker 1: more or yeah.

863
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:31,760
Speaker 4: So they're making eighty percent of the fair the average

864
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:34,400
Speaker 4: driver on Uber and Lyft is and keeping about forty percent.

865
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 2: Yep, shit, that needs to be your advertising.

866
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:43,000
Speaker 1: Yeah shit, you could be making forty percent, you could

867
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:44,160
Speaker 1: be making eighty percent.

868
00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:46,200
Speaker 2: Shoot, but I guess.

869
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:49,520
Speaker 4: Uber and Lyft has more demand than we do on

870
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:52,560
Speaker 4: the customer side. So like when you turn on the

871
00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:55,000
Speaker 4: when you turn on the app as an Uber Lyft driver,

872
00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:59,200
Speaker 4: it in about probably thirty seconds you'll get a ding

873
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:00,880
Speaker 4: saying somebody wants to ride for us.

874
00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:01,560
Speaker 3: It's not like that.

875
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:05,239
Speaker 1: Have you now ever been in a position where you

876
00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:08,399
Speaker 1: get a customer ask for a ride? This is this

877
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:11,280
Speaker 1: is real deep, but and and none of your drivers

878
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:13,600
Speaker 1: are available, and you'd be like, forget it, I'll put all.

879
00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:14,279
Speaker 2: My driver hat.

880
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:17,279
Speaker 3: Yeah I've done that. Yeah. Yeah, I was saying, my mom,

881
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:18,439
Speaker 3: what are shaking head? Yeah.

882
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:19,840
Speaker 4: The only reason I'm not doing it right now is

883
00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:22,840
Speaker 4: because my car. I'm having car troubles. And it's probably

884
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:24,920
Speaker 4: like for the best that I'm even having car troubles

885
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:27,040
Speaker 4: right now because my team doesn't even want me driving.

886
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:29,920
Speaker 4: Like I was a driver. I was legitimate, I was

887
00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:31,440
Speaker 4: a driver. I was one of the main ones.

888
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:36,200
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, that's good that you got out of that seat. Now.

889
00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:37,480
Speaker 2: Do you have mentors?

890
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:42,640
Speaker 4: I have one that just just started on with me.

891
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:46,480
Speaker 4: He's a technical architect and he has been helping me

892
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:49,920
Speaker 4: understand like the code for real, understand the structure and

893
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:53,080
Speaker 4: the organization of how my app is set up so

894
00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:55,560
Speaker 4: that I can be just a better CTO and a

895
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 4: better system admin for my for my company. So that's

896
00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:00,799
Speaker 4: my only mentor right now. There's some people that I

897
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:03,319
Speaker 4: look up to, but I don't not people that I

898
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:07,399
Speaker 4: can just call and be like hey, yeah, okay, yeah,

899
00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:09,839
Speaker 4: I wouldn't say that I have any No, not any

900
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:13,839
Speaker 4: entrepreneur and mentors that that are like on me, Like, hey, Jill,

901
00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:14,400
Speaker 4: I'm checking it.

902
00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:14,760
Speaker 3: Nah.

903
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:16,839
Speaker 4: It's a couple of people that I look up to

904
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:18,560
Speaker 4: and then I pay attention to and I study.

905
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:25,040
Speaker 2: But yeah, I think mentorship is crucial.

906
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:27,080
Speaker 3: I think it is crucial.

907
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:27,960
Speaker 2: It's crucial.

908
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:29,880
Speaker 3: I'm just trying to let my mentor find me.

909
00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:32,120
Speaker 1: It doesn't know, there's no such thing as a mentor,

910
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:35,160
Speaker 1: oh for real, So that's my mentor.

911
00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:42,160
Speaker 2: I've mentored so many people in my life. It's crazy

912
00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:43,520
Speaker 2: because my garage.

913
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:46,759
Speaker 1: Literally it has become the home to some of my

914
00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:52,279
Speaker 1: mentees a couple of times or of stories. But all

915
00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:55,480
Speaker 1: my mentees have surpassed me, I think, all of them,

916
00:40:55,760 --> 00:41:01,560
Speaker 1: which I'm very, very very proud of. And then my

917
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:05,600
Speaker 1: mentors they weren't necessarily in the same field or line

918
00:41:05,640 --> 00:41:09,239
Speaker 1: of work, which I think is really important because when

919
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:13,720
Speaker 1: you get them in a different field, in a different line,

920
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 1: they can cover things that you wouldn't think of. I

921
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:20,000
Speaker 1: remember one of my mentors, you know, he was like,

922
00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:23,040
Speaker 1: your business credit's so good, but what's your credit at?

923
00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:25,359
Speaker 1: And then I bought a range Rover, and I think

924
00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:27,880
Speaker 1: it had like a twelve percent interest rate.

925
00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:29,759
Speaker 2: I was really really bothered by it.

926
00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:32,000
Speaker 1: But now I have like a nine hundred fight though,

927
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:36,120
Speaker 1: you know, but it took, you know, having mentors in

928
00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:38,919
Speaker 1: areas of my life that could be like, Yo, don't

929
00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:40,200
Speaker 1: forget to do this.

930
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:42,000
Speaker 2: And you're gonna oversee this.

931
00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:44,360
Speaker 1: You're gonna spend too much time on this and pivot

932
00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:47,960
Speaker 1: here or stop crying and like pick up the phone

933
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:49,600
Speaker 1: and try something different.

934
00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:51,279
Speaker 2: So mentorship is.

935
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:53,400
Speaker 1: Very you know, if you're gonna be the entrepreneur, you're

936
00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:54,560
Speaker 1: gonna need to seek them out.

937
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:56,600
Speaker 2: I stalked on mine.

938
00:41:56,760 --> 00:41:59,360
Speaker 1: I literally stalked them, like, Yo, you're gonna take my calls,

939
00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:01,279
Speaker 1: You're gonna come to lunch for me. You're going to

940
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:03,200
Speaker 1: see what I'm about. You're gonna see what I'm doing,

941
00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:07,160
Speaker 1: and you're gonna be my mentor.

942
00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:10,600
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I don't. I don't.

943
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:13,040
Speaker 1: It's almost like asking someone out on a date. It's like,

944
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:15,160
Speaker 1: you're gonna be my mentor. I've been studying you for

945
00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:19,960
Speaker 1: a while. You're amazing, and uh, these are some areas

946
00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:20,919
Speaker 1: that I probably.

947
00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:21,120
Speaker 2: Need your help with.

948
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:24,239
Speaker 1: And I mean a lot of my mentors like when

949
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:28,280
Speaker 1: I was younger. So I use that for my benefit.

950
00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:40,760
Speaker 3: See, I was coming from the sport.

951
00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:44,520
Speaker 4: I'm such a sports focused person that I'm thinking like, okay,

952
00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:47,320
Speaker 4: like they should be like a recruiter, like how recruits recruit.

953
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:51,160
Speaker 1: I love asking mentors to be your mentor because once

954
00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:53,759
Speaker 1: you get them to agree, it's like you can call

955
00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:56,280
Speaker 1: their cell at anytime, you could send them a text

956
00:42:56,280 --> 00:43:01,960
Speaker 1: at any time. My mentees could call me anytime, anywhere,

957
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:05,359
Speaker 1: any place, text, call, whatever, And I'm gonna be like, yo,

958
00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:06,479
Speaker 1: I gotta take the call.

959
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:08,000
Speaker 2: I gotta because I.

960
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:12,080
Speaker 1: Signed up for this commitment and I'm honored because I

961
00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:13,160
Speaker 1: want to see them succeed.

962
00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:18,080
Speaker 2: Right, You're like, they gotta succeed, you're rooting for them.

963
00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:24,359
Speaker 1: But I love it. I'm that's my I can sign up.

964
00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:26,880
Speaker 1: I'm not the easiest though, because everyone ever, all my

965
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:29,080
Speaker 1: mentees complain about me at some point.

966
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:33,759
Speaker 4: To no, I like, I enjoy I come from My

967
00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:37,200
Speaker 4: coaches are very rough, not rough, but very very hard

968
00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:40,560
Speaker 4: on me. So I like I need that. I need someone.

969
00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:44,040
Speaker 3: That's like, yeah, read this, dude doesn't mind cutting me out.

970
00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:47,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, they don't want to tell me what they put

971
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:49,080
Speaker 1: on their credit cards. They don't want to tell me

972
00:43:49,080 --> 00:43:49,520
Speaker 1: none of that.

973
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:55,560
Speaker 2: But okay, so where do you see your future landing?

974
00:43:56,360 --> 00:44:00,279
Speaker 3: I see my future being an acquisition.

975
00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:02,960
Speaker 2: Land you know already acquisition.

976
00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:05,759
Speaker 4: Yeah, you always have to think of an exit. When

977
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:08,280
Speaker 4: you have a tech company, you should always be thinking exit.

978
00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:11,400
Speaker 4: I would love to be acquired. I don't want to

979
00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:14,080
Speaker 4: just sell and just you know, do whatever I want

980
00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:16,480
Speaker 4: to do. I still want to be involved, but I

981
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:19,120
Speaker 4: would love an acquisition. That would that would be That

982
00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:19,959
Speaker 4: would be super dope.

983
00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:23,319
Speaker 1: Have you heard of other companies in your space that

984
00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:27,160
Speaker 1: got venture capital where they were hyper niche in a

985
00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:32,200
Speaker 1: in a realm that was like really absorbed, not VC, not.

986
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:35,600
Speaker 3: Big VC money. I've done my research on some.

987
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:38,120
Speaker 4: There have been some that have gotten like six figure,

988
00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:40,759
Speaker 4: six figure investments, but then they pivoted and went to

989
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:44,200
Speaker 4: something else. I'm the only one that is taking it

990
00:44:44,239 --> 00:44:48,319
Speaker 4: this far in terms of getting inside of like an

991
00:44:48,360 --> 00:44:51,840
Speaker 4: airport and then also getting signage up there with the airport,

992
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:54,600
Speaker 4: like there was nobody. No one was out here doing that,

993
00:44:55,840 --> 00:44:56,600
Speaker 4: not before we came.

994
00:44:56,960 --> 00:45:01,200
Speaker 1: Now, you guys came during the pandemic or after, so

995
00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:03,760
Speaker 1: you didn't think about riding the whole black waves.

996
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:08,239
Speaker 4: No, the reason why, well, actually did. That's how we

997
00:45:08,239 --> 00:45:12,920
Speaker 4: went viral first because of COVID, everything shut down. We

998
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:16,920
Speaker 4: focused on social media promotion. I'm heavy on Twitter.

999
00:45:17,280 --> 00:45:17,880
Speaker 3: Love Twitter.

1000
00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:20,279
Speaker 4: My former co founder was also heavy on Twitter, which

1001
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:22,080
Speaker 4: is why I recruited her. She was very good at

1002
00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:26,640
Speaker 4: social media because covid had everybody on social media. People

1003
00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:28,080
Speaker 4: used to play a lot of games on Twitter with

1004
00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:30,600
Speaker 4: all this other stuff. Different trendy little things was going

1005
00:45:30,640 --> 00:45:33,359
Speaker 4: trendy every other day. The one particular one that made

1006
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:36,240
Speaker 4: us go viral was people were doing pictures of themselves.

1007
00:45:36,239 --> 00:45:38,480
Speaker 4: They were posting pictures of themselves as the owner of

1008
00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:40,920
Speaker 4: whatever is their brand was, and then they posted a

1009
00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:43,880
Speaker 4: picture of their business or their brand. And so I

1010
00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:46,920
Speaker 4: told my co founder, I said, hey, I want you

1011
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:48,560
Speaker 4: to do this, post a picture of your do you

1012
00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:51,600
Speaker 4: know hop in that trend, but don't post me post

1013
00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:56,200
Speaker 4: yourself if you know what She looked like you would understand.

1014
00:45:56,239 --> 00:45:58,239
Speaker 4: But she was a well okay. So for me, I

1015
00:45:58,280 --> 00:46:01,480
Speaker 4: was playing on colorism. She's like light skinned, pretty eyes,

1016
00:46:01,719 --> 00:46:03,960
Speaker 4: like light eyes, and so I was like, I said,

1017
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:06,000
Speaker 4: this is going to work. I was like, watch, just watch.

1018
00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:09,879
Speaker 4: She posted it and she called me back within thirty minutes.

1019
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:11,200
Speaker 4: She was like, I think we're gonna go viral, just

1020
00:46:11,239 --> 00:46:14,520
Speaker 4: based off how people were the traffic she was getting

1021
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:17,759
Speaker 4: on her social media, and we did. We got I

1022
00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:20,120
Speaker 4: want to say two or three million, No, it might

1023
00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:22,600
Speaker 4: have been seven seven million impressions, but seven thousand people

1024
00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:23,359
Speaker 4: signed up that day.

1025
00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:25,400
Speaker 2: And do you think colorism?

1026
00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:29,880
Speaker 1: But now this was during the pandemic, right, this is

1027
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:31,279
Speaker 1: around the black Lives matter movement.

1028
00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:32,399
Speaker 3: Yeah, black lives matter.

1029
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:37,279
Speaker 4: But when it comes to optics, people see when they

1030
00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:40,520
Speaker 4: think of when they see, okay, when they hear a

1031
00:46:40,719 --> 00:46:43,839
Speaker 4: rides share company or all women's rides share company, who

1032
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:45,960
Speaker 4: would be the face of that? If you took a

1033
00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:47,960
Speaker 4: picture of me versus who my co founder was at

1034
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:50,319
Speaker 4: the time, you would assume it was her, not me

1035
00:46:50,520 --> 00:46:54,319
Speaker 4: that created the idea. Why because she's just the she

1036
00:46:54,560 --> 00:46:58,000
Speaker 4: just she looks different than I do. She's a softer

1037
00:46:58,120 --> 00:47:00,839
Speaker 4: version of me, A softer Yeah, it's just a softer

1038
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:03,440
Speaker 4: not of rugged, like I would say, not rugged or whatever,

1039
00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:05,799
Speaker 4: like you know, just pretty little girl like oh wow,

1040
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:07,480
Speaker 4: Like I would expect a girl that looks like her

1041
00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:10,520
Speaker 4: to create an idea like that. And it's like, okay,

1042
00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:12,840
Speaker 4: I was just playing off the internet and it worked.

1043
00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:13,520
Speaker 3: It worked.

1044
00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:16,759
Speaker 4: I knew it was gonna work. I didn't feel any

1045
00:47:16,760 --> 00:47:19,000
Speaker 4: way about it though. I just knew it was gonna work.

1046
00:47:19,640 --> 00:47:20,760
Speaker 2: I just think that's interesting.

1047
00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:23,960
Speaker 3: That says a lot in social engineering.

1048
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:26,120
Speaker 1: But it says a lot because you said something that's

1049
00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:29,640
Speaker 1: very interesting. You said that people wouldn't assume that a

1050
00:47:29,719 --> 00:47:33,719
Speaker 1: girl that looks like you could create this application, but

1051
00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:37,560
Speaker 1: a girl that looks the opposite of you could create

1052
00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:38,200
Speaker 1: the application.

1053
00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:41,000
Speaker 3: The reception was way different.

1054
00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:43,360
Speaker 4: And sometimes I go back and look at it, just

1055
00:47:43,719 --> 00:47:45,400
Speaker 4: just to just do my studies.

1056
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:45,839
Speaker 3: Just look.

1057
00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:47,640
Speaker 4: I go back and look at that post, and I

1058
00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:51,560
Speaker 4: go through the comments that people were more receptive of

1059
00:47:51,600 --> 00:47:55,640
Speaker 4: her creating the idea versus me in terms of just comments.

1060
00:47:55,640 --> 00:47:58,200
Speaker 4: So whenever whenever I go viral and people find out

1061
00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:02,120
Speaker 4: I'm the founder, the reaction from men is a lot

1062
00:48:02,239 --> 00:48:05,160
Speaker 4: harsher versus the reaction when they found out she.

1063
00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:07,480
Speaker 2: Was the founder from men or from women.

1064
00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:09,600
Speaker 3: From men and women really, but mainly men.

1065
00:48:10,400 --> 00:48:13,200
Speaker 2: Man. What were they saying just mainly like.

1066
00:48:13,120 --> 00:48:18,520
Speaker 4: Things like uh uh just basically I mean just really

1067
00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:20,920
Speaker 4: trying to just attack like my sexuality or just my

1068
00:48:21,200 --> 00:48:23,040
Speaker 4: just the way I look. So they'll just be like, oh,

1069
00:48:23,080 --> 00:48:25,640
Speaker 4: women don't hit on women and all this other stuff like, yeah,

1070
00:48:25,719 --> 00:48:27,920
Speaker 4: but that's not why I created this app. Like the

1071
00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:30,000
Speaker 4: fact that you would assume that I created the app

1072
00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:32,680
Speaker 4: to hit on women. It's crazy, but they would.

1073
00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:38,440
Speaker 2: Say that from her You're you're not straight, yeah, okay,

1074
00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:39,320
Speaker 2: but you are straight?

1075
00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:40,400
Speaker 3: No, no, no, I'm not straight.

1076
00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:41,240
Speaker 2: You're not straight.

1077
00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:44,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you know, it's just is what it is.

1078
00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:52,719
Speaker 2: So okay, yeah, I see. So then in this whole line, do.

1079
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:57,399
Speaker 1: You feel like, see, yeah, you're weaving a nice little

1080
00:48:57,440 --> 00:49:01,160
Speaker 1: web because now you are not straight, but then you

1081
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:04,080
Speaker 1: have an app, and then you have the transgenders.

1082
00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:08,280
Speaker 2: So this is a tricky, tricky, tricky, tricky, tricky waters.

1083
00:49:08,239 --> 00:49:14,359
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, okay, but hm, so have you thought about

1084
00:49:14,360 --> 00:49:15,360
Speaker 1: getting out of Atlanta.

1085
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:18,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm originally from Athens, Georgia. So I actually want

1086
00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:21,320
Speaker 4: to try a smaller market, like a college town, smaller market,

1087
00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:23,640
Speaker 4: just to see how it plays out there. I would

1088
00:49:23,680 --> 00:49:25,799
Speaker 4: love to go to Houston. I would love to go

1089
00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:30,240
Speaker 4: to Seattle, Washington. I would love to go to US Tampa, Tampa, Florida.

1090
00:49:30,280 --> 00:49:31,920
Speaker 4: I think we would do well there. There's so many

1091
00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:34,239
Speaker 4: different places I'd rather go. I mean, not not rather go,

1092
00:49:34,360 --> 00:49:36,640
Speaker 4: but I want to be at but we have to

1093
00:49:36,680 --> 00:49:39,160
Speaker 4: be able to scale Atlanta properly first before we go

1094
00:49:39,160 --> 00:49:39,799
Speaker 4: anywhere else.

1095
00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:43,200
Speaker 2: How close are you to quitting your jobs just to

1096
00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:43,919
Speaker 2: do full time?

1097
00:49:44,040 --> 00:49:45,719
Speaker 3: Ooh, I just got in trouble today at work. Not

1098
00:49:45,800 --> 00:49:47,920
Speaker 3: even gonna lie to you. I was.

1099
00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:52,359
Speaker 4: Just because as the business of her Ride has been

1100
00:49:52,360 --> 00:49:54,200
Speaker 4: getting a lot more busy, it's been taking me away

1101
00:49:54,239 --> 00:49:57,680
Speaker 4: from my job. How close am I I want to

1102
00:49:57,680 --> 00:49:58,520
Speaker 4: be six months away?

1103
00:49:59,280 --> 00:50:00,840
Speaker 3: I'm giving myself six months.

1104
00:50:02,040 --> 00:50:04,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think it should probably be less than that.

1105
00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:06,480
Speaker 2: If you really want to grow this business, I think

1106
00:50:06,520 --> 00:50:09,319
Speaker 2: it should be too. Yeah. So what is your job

1107
00:50:09,360 --> 00:50:10,880
Speaker 2: giving you that your company can.

1108
00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:14,800
Speaker 3: A consistent check every two weeks without me having.

1109
00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:17,560
Speaker 1: To But but are you taking that money and putting

1110
00:50:17,600 --> 00:50:18,400
Speaker 1: it in the company?

1111
00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:21,160
Speaker 2: Are you? Or are you spending that money on something else? No?

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Speaker 4: I take that money and well, outside of paying my bills,

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Speaker 4: it goes back into the company.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I feel like every business I've ever had to do,

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00:50:29,960 --> 00:50:30,920
Speaker 1: I've had to just.

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Speaker 3: Jump off the porch I've been.

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Speaker 4: I've been telling my co founder that that I feel

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Speaker 4: like it's time for me to get to that point

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Speaker 4: because I don't want her.

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Speaker 3: She's not leaving her job. She has a great job.

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00:50:40,400 --> 00:50:43,320
Speaker 3: But for me, I feel like I could do more

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Speaker 3: if I do leave my job. The the thing is how

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Speaker 3: I'm going to make the money that I was making

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Speaker 3: at my job. How I'm going to replace that. I

1126
00:50:50,520 --> 00:50:52,359
Speaker 3: could replace it by just driving a while.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, eating while I broke, I could go back to Yeah,

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Speaker 4: you could see salmon and rice.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not gonna lie. I probably only ate as

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00:51:01,560 --> 00:51:03,160
Speaker 1: much as I did because I'm starting.

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Speaker 2: I would rate this eating while broke.

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00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:13,440
Speaker 1: I would say it's like a three. But I feel

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00:51:13,440 --> 00:51:15,360
Speaker 1: like if your mama came up here and made it,

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00:51:15,040 --> 00:51:18,719
Speaker 1: it would taste better. I gotta hate a little bit

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00:51:18,760 --> 00:51:22,719
Speaker 1: on it. M. But your journey is definitely interesting.

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Speaker 2: Uh. Is there any bit of advice you would share

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00:51:26,719 --> 00:51:28,560
Speaker 2: with anybody else? M M.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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00:51:30,520 --> 00:51:36,560
Speaker 4: If you are someone who is thinking about just hopping

1140
00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:40,359
Speaker 4: into entrepreneurship, period, I would say, keep your day job.

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00:51:41,440 --> 00:51:44,000
Speaker 4: Keep your day job until you figure out how to

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00:51:44,080 --> 00:51:47,200
Speaker 4: properly scale your business, because a lot of people they'll

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00:51:47,239 --> 00:51:50,520
Speaker 4: hop they'll just they'll quit their great job to start,

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00:51:50,560 --> 00:51:55,440
Speaker 4: you know, making a waste beads or making candles or

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00:51:55,440 --> 00:51:57,960
Speaker 4: something like that. And then realize that that's not what

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00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:00,120
Speaker 4: they really want to do. But you've also just at

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00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:02,600
Speaker 4: your job, so now you have to do this, and

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00:52:02,640 --> 00:52:05,360
Speaker 4: so it's something that now it's turned into something that

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00:52:05,400 --> 00:52:08,279
Speaker 4: you hate. And so I would say for people that like,

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00:52:08,440 --> 00:52:09,920
Speaker 4: just make sure that one this is something that you

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00:52:09,960 --> 00:52:12,719
Speaker 4: really want to do, but try to figure out how

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00:52:12,719 --> 00:52:14,560
Speaker 4: to do it while keeping your day job. If you

1153
00:52:14,560 --> 00:52:17,680
Speaker 4: can figure out how to hustle around those hours, then

1154
00:52:18,520 --> 00:52:20,480
Speaker 4: I truly believe that you're ready for entrepreneurship.

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00:52:20,719 --> 00:52:22,520
Speaker 2: That's funny. I would give the polar opposite.

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00:52:22,640 --> 00:52:26,799
Speaker 1: I know, I get that all the time, because if

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00:52:26,840 --> 00:52:30,320
Speaker 1: you're going in with a backup plan, you're not going

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00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:33,879
Speaker 1: into to succeed. Some of the stuff like in entrepreneurship

1159
00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:36,120
Speaker 1: is like you gotta pivot. But if you're not, if

1160
00:52:36,160 --> 00:52:40,520
Speaker 1: your back isn't against the wall, sometimes you can't fight

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00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:43,040
Speaker 1: as hard and you can't see everything because you have

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00:52:43,160 --> 00:52:44,680
Speaker 1: so much comfort in your corner.

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Speaker 3: That's true.

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00:52:45,719 --> 00:52:48,640
Speaker 2: So it's it can be a double edged sword.

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00:52:48,920 --> 00:52:50,120
Speaker 3: True, that's true.

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00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:54,400
Speaker 2: You know that that comfort zone is very dangerous.

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00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:57,560
Speaker 3: I agree, but yeah, yeah, you're right, because it's.

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Speaker 1: Nothing teaches you how to scale a company faster than

1169
00:53:00,800 --> 00:53:03,520
Speaker 1: struggle in struggle struggle, I promise you can get rid

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00:53:03,560 --> 00:53:05,200
Speaker 1: of those day jobs. You're gonna figure out how to

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00:53:05,239 --> 00:53:09,400
Speaker 1: scale that business real quick. Sometimes the backup plant is

1172
00:53:09,760 --> 00:53:13,600
Speaker 1: really a bad plan. So either you're all in or

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00:53:13,640 --> 00:53:16,600
Speaker 1: you're all not. It's interesting, You're in an interesting space.

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00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:17,080
Speaker 2: Uh.

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00:53:18,040 --> 00:53:22,120
Speaker 1: I've I've seen other people do similar things in like

1176
00:53:22,239 --> 00:53:25,000
Speaker 1: they borrow the code or they take on someone else's

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00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:26,719
Speaker 1: code and hypernt shit.

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00:53:27,440 --> 00:53:30,360
Speaker 2: Uh So I thought what you were doing is very interesting.

1179
00:53:30,520 --> 00:53:34,360
Speaker 1: Approaching the airports fighting for that interesting, you know.

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00:53:34,520 --> 00:53:38,560
Speaker 2: But I definitely think Quinn in the day job is essential.

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00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:41,879
Speaker 3: She wants me to quit. That's all my plans, It's

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00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:44,040
Speaker 3: all my It's definitely on my calendar for this year.

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00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:46,120
Speaker 2: It sounds crazy.

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00:53:46,480 --> 00:53:48,279
Speaker 4: I know it is because I just got put on

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00:53:48,320 --> 00:53:49,680
Speaker 4: full time with a good benefit.

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00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:51,760
Speaker 3: So it sounds definitely sounds crazy.

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00:53:52,080 --> 00:53:54,000
Speaker 2: It sounds crazy. It's the way to do it though.

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00:53:55,440 --> 00:53:57,200
Speaker 1: That's the only way to go up, man, you gotta

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00:53:57,239 --> 00:54:01,160
Speaker 1: start from the bottom. But anyways, everyone can keep up

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00:54:01,200 --> 00:54:04,799
Speaker 1: with her ride. Yes, I guess where you go into

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00:54:04,840 --> 00:54:05,840
Speaker 1: your app store apples?

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00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:07,759
Speaker 4: Yes, so that's the first thing I want you all

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00:54:07,760 --> 00:54:10,400
Speaker 4: to do, Yes, app store or Android, And it's her

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00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:13,000
Speaker 4: ride with one R so H R I D E.

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00:54:13,160 --> 00:54:15,640
Speaker 4: You can download us on both platforms and it's the

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Speaker 4: light purple app.

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00:54:16,760 --> 00:54:20,680
Speaker 3: But men can be men can ride as customers. So

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00:54:20,800 --> 00:54:23,600
Speaker 3: if you want to use the platform, you can ride, bro.

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Speaker 2: That's how you should advertise it too, what you talk about.

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00:54:25,880 --> 00:54:27,640
Speaker 1: So every type of man gets in the car, he

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00:54:27,640 --> 00:54:31,800
Speaker 1: could be in the car with a lady.

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00:54:31,880 --> 00:54:35,480
Speaker 3: If you guy, it could go it could go left.

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00:54:35,680 --> 00:54:36,640
Speaker 2: But you know what I'm saying.

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00:54:36,680 --> 00:54:37,800
Speaker 3: But yeah that I don't.

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00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:40,520
Speaker 4: I don't market and or advertised to men, just because

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00:54:40,760 --> 00:54:42,600
Speaker 4: it's just kind of like one of those things like

1207
00:54:42,840 --> 00:54:45,359
Speaker 4: we're like tampons, like guys know about them, but y'all

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00:54:45,360 --> 00:54:47,600
Speaker 4: don't really know about them, like that type of.

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00:54:47,560 --> 00:54:51,759
Speaker 2: Thing, like market customers.

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00:54:51,840 --> 00:54:54,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, my goal is women. Now, anybody can use it

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00:54:54,719 --> 00:54:56,680
Speaker 4: just for legal purposes, but we don't market to men.

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00:54:57,440 --> 00:55:00,000
Speaker 4: But if a guy finds out about her ride, then yeah,

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00:55:00,200 --> 00:55:01,040
Speaker 4: not like a creed.

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Speaker 1: Yeah what you say, I mean, I'm just no, that's

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00:55:07,640 --> 00:55:09,680
Speaker 1: what I'm thinking. Like if I was a man, I'd

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00:55:09,680 --> 00:55:11,320
Speaker 1: be like, wait, so every time I got out of

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00:55:11,320 --> 00:55:13,120
Speaker 1: this app, I get picked up by a female.

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Speaker 2: Not bad at all, not bad, you know, you know

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00:55:17,600 --> 00:55:19,919
Speaker 2: it's funny. Marketing is funny. I see, I see.

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00:55:19,960 --> 00:55:24,120
Speaker 1: The goal is to to to to protect women.

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00:55:24,200 --> 00:55:28,040
Speaker 2: But at the same time, I don't know. If I

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00:55:28,080 --> 00:55:32,040
Speaker 2: was a brother, yeah, I'd be like this, maybe the app.

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00:55:31,840 --> 00:55:35,080
Speaker 1: To be on you know, then you get you get

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00:55:35,080 --> 00:55:37,000
Speaker 1: women drivers that need money.

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Speaker 2: I don't know this. Look I'm thinking terrible. I'm a

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00:55:39,600 --> 00:55:43,240
Speaker 2: terrible person. I'm I'm marketing.

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00:55:43,360 --> 00:55:45,600
Speaker 3: Now, give me more ideas, more security.

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00:55:46,040 --> 00:55:47,920
Speaker 1: Like all the minute, eighty five sons will be now

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00:55:47,960 --> 00:55:49,360
Speaker 1: being picked up by her writers.

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00:55:49,440 --> 00:55:52,440
Speaker 2: Right looking up, yar all shaking head. Yep, they downloaded

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00:55:52,440 --> 00:55:53,000
Speaker 2: the app.

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00:55:54,320 --> 00:55:56,759
Speaker 3: And the pre book. If you do just booking events,

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00:55:57,160 --> 00:55:57,920
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying.

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00:55:57,719 --> 00:56:00,439
Speaker 2: That the pricing don't change. You saving money and it's

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00:56:00,480 --> 00:56:06,359
Speaker 2: not too hard to impress a girl that is doing

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00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:07,040
Speaker 2: that for a living.

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00:56:07,040 --> 00:56:08,759
Speaker 3: All of this I'm trying to.

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00:56:08,880 --> 00:56:11,040
Speaker 1: Give her like a ten dollar tip. No, it's what

1239
00:56:11,280 --> 00:56:13,680
Speaker 1: dollar tip? I don't know this is Are you guys

1240
00:56:13,760 --> 00:56:14,239
Speaker 1: laughing at me?

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00:56:14,480 --> 00:56:17,520
Speaker 4: Just take not a dating app. By the way, don't

1242
00:56:17,520 --> 00:56:18,600
Speaker 4: please don't think.

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00:56:18,440 --> 00:56:22,000
Speaker 1: That this is going app.

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00:56:22,160 --> 00:56:22,799
Speaker 3: It will not be.

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00:56:23,600 --> 00:56:28,120
Speaker 1: There's like three new downloads today. It's like this is

1246
00:56:28,120 --> 00:56:28,880
Speaker 1: the only you.

1247
00:56:28,880 --> 00:56:31,080
Speaker 3: Will not find your wife on her ride. You will

1248
00:56:31,120 --> 00:56:33,200
Speaker 3: not find her. You never know.

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00:56:34,320 --> 00:56:36,680
Speaker 1: Shoot, if I was her rider and I said, you're

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00:56:36,680 --> 00:56:38,520
Speaker 1: gonna see your men numbers go up.

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00:56:38,520 --> 00:56:39,680
Speaker 3: I know they are. Yeah.

1252
00:56:40,360 --> 00:56:42,880
Speaker 2: Are your male are they? Are they the leader who's

1253
00:56:42,920 --> 00:56:43,640
Speaker 2: the lead customer?

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00:56:44,080 --> 00:56:47,080
Speaker 3: Women of our rides are women. Yeah.

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00:56:48,040 --> 00:56:50,920
Speaker 4: We rarely take men. Men don't know, They really don't know.

1256
00:56:51,040 --> 00:56:53,160
Speaker 4: Half of them don't even think it's for them. But

1257
00:56:53,239 --> 00:56:54,160
Speaker 4: I'm gonna keep it like that.

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00:56:54,280 --> 00:56:59,080
Speaker 2: Well, I'm gonna tell you right now this there's gonna

1259
00:56:59,120 --> 00:57:03,560
Speaker 2: be men all over. Where's all right again? To my city?

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00:57:03,840 --> 00:57:05,840
Speaker 2: Were gonna have to add another feature?

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00:57:06,239 --> 00:57:06,560
Speaker 1: They are.

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00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:10,440
Speaker 2: They're gonna add the tender the tender rides. There you go.

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00:57:10,560 --> 00:57:12,800
Speaker 3: They're gonna have to do something, all right, y'all.

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Speaker 1: Thank you guys for checking out another episode of Eating While.

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Speaker 2: Peace.

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