An engineer built a Life Alert bear for kids and a firefighting drone for wildfires, then watched both projects die. His co-founder wasn't committed, he did months of unpaid work, and neither made a dollar.
The biggest thing I got into was actually helping develop and design and engineer a drone. I guess one before that was a bear, like a Life Alert bear for kids that if they were in a dangerous situation, they could press the arm on the bear and it would alert the police. I'm sure they have something like that now, but back in the day they didn't. But yeah, I mean, that was cool. And then I got into making a drone for firefighters that would basically take the drone up and be able to scout out search and rescue, fire, you know, what does a fire look like, wildfires, things like that. So a lot of that died out just because I realized in the startup world, you're doing a lot of work towards nothing, towards no money. So I was like, hey, I had done this advertising stuff and getting back to, you know, about partners throughout, you know, all these projects. I had a partner, individual partner on the drone. Again, I had my other partner for the prototype and stuff, and my partner was never really as committed as I was into what we were doing. So it's kind of hard when, you know, you're doing all this work, you're busting your ass and your partner— and again, love, love these kids if they're listening to it and they realize who they are, like nothing against them. It's just, you know, I was in my lane and I like, I was eat, breathe, sleep doing this shit, listening to Gary Vee and all that kind of stuff. So.
