Speaker 1: Flex and Frooms Flex and Fromes. This is the Flex
Speaker 1: and Frooms catch up podcast. I don't think any of
Speaker 1: us could have anticipated the companies that exist now that
Speaker 1: are running the world, or the services that these companies
Speaker 1: offer that have become so vital in our lives. We
Speaker 1: could not imagine living without them. I'm talking ride share apps.
Speaker 1: We were getting places fine with ease before, we were
Speaker 1: paying thirty bucks to go ten minutes down the road.
Speaker 1: There were options. We were eating fine before we decided
Speaker 1: that paying fifty dollars for lukewarm, cold, subpar food five
Speaker 1: times a week was regular and normal and sane behavior.
Speaker 1: We truly bought stuff fine before we made every transaction
Speaker 1: digitally and from the other side of the world. We
Speaker 1: had options. But now these services become so intertwined with
Speaker 1: the way that we live that in order to uncouple
Speaker 1: from these services we need to literally change our lifestyle.
Speaker 1: That's insane to me that for me to now decide
Speaker 1: that I'm not going to use any kind of delivery
Speaker 1: food service, I would need to literally change my life.
Speaker 1: I can't relate. I know, I hate it. It's unfortunate.
Speaker 1: So I was thinking and thank goodness for the people
Speaker 1: who work in my phone that make sure that any
Speaker 1: passing thought that I have is reflected in my algorithm.
Speaker 1: I don't know what I would do without you, because
Speaker 1: I was thinking, what will be the next bajillion trillion
Speaker 1: dollar company, the next thing that will come to be
Speaker 1: that we didn't know we needed and now we can't
Speaker 1: really live without, and what industries will be pumping in
Speaker 1: the way that they aren't pumping now. So then this
Speaker 1: TikTok came up on my feed from this creator called
Speaker 1: the Ilhan Jama, and she had four distinct categories, and
Speaker 1: I think she kind of ate with that. Yes, I
Speaker 1: love to know that someone's been thinking about this. She's
Speaker 1: giving away this information for free, which you know, we've
Speaker 1: got to be mindful about that because there is some
Speaker 1: tech always watching course. But you know you're in good company,
Speaker 1: So let's talk about it. So, the first category, or
Speaker 1: the first problem that needs to be solved that we
Speaker 1: don't have a clear solution for yet is the dating
Speaker 1: loneliness friendship epidemic. Dating apps don't work as intended. People
Speaker 1: are reporting higher levels of loneliness and ever before and
Speaker 1: every second person has a friendship issue that cannot be
Speaker 1: solved with traditional means like talking. So who is going
Speaker 1: to capitalize off these issues and monetize them feed it
Speaker 1: back to us in a way that's beneficial. People do
Speaker 1: argue that the reason why we struggle in relationships is
Speaker 1: because social media optimized the one part of our lives.
Speaker 1: It didn't need to be optimized. We didn't need to
Speaker 1: know how to do relationships quicker or more efficiently. We
Speaker 1: actually did need the slower burn of intimacy, and now
Speaker 1: we bypass that. We have to undo that. So when
Speaker 1: I start my pen power company, don't come for me.
Speaker 1: Just know I'm saving lives. The next category is side hustles.
Speaker 1: So if we live in a society the average person
Speaker 1: cannot sustain themselves on their single income and is being
Speaker 1: motivated by the entrepreneur story to start something on the
Speaker 1: side to give them more money, what company will exist
Speaker 1: to help them do that efficiently? You know, how do
Speaker 1: we help you help you? Because that's what these other
Speaker 1: companies are claiming to do, helping you help you? Now,
Speaker 1: will it be like dating apps where you are giving
Speaker 1: away your data and your time and your energy and
Speaker 1: your money in hopes that you'll come out of it
Speaker 1: with a relationship In hopes that you'll come out of
Speaker 1: it with a career and it just never comes. Maybe
Speaker 1: possibly the other category, this was an amazing one, women
Speaker 1: only homes. Yeah, let's go now that one. I don't know,
Speaker 1: because there was a point in time where women's only
Speaker 1: gyms were beginning to be a bit of a thing.
Speaker 1: And I don't know why those fell off. I know
Speaker 1: because I would love to go to one now. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they were genius. Where did they go? They must still exist? Maybe?
Speaker 1: I guess the emphasis for so long on women's appearances
Speaker 1: has been external things like body modifications and diet, but
Speaker 1: perhaps maybe there wasn't as much of a pop culture
Speaker 1: focus on fitness as there is right now. True to
Speaker 1: maybe a women's gym would make more sense in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three than it did in twenty thirteen. And the
Speaker 1: last industry, or the last category is two to three
Speaker 1: step makeup. I know people spend a lot of time
Speaker 1: roasting predominantly men for two in one products and finding
Speaker 1: easy ways to speed up the hygiene beautification process, but realistically,
Speaker 1: how long can we be marketed nine ten fifteen step
Speaker 1: skincare routines to then do nine ten fifteen step makeup
Speaker 1: routines to then do nine, ten, fifteen step hair care routines.
Speaker 1: It just doesn't feel like it's going to have legs
Speaker 1: for very long. It's a lot, isn't it. It's a lot. Anyways,
Speaker 1: I'm hoping that we see some of these come true.
Speaker 1: I don't think I can take credit for it, but
Speaker 1: it'd be interesting to see this time in five years,
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, whoa, someone did make a friendship app
Speaker 1: and would you go on? Don't answer that you've been
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