IM GETTING SUED!!! (not Jake Paul clickbait) | VLOG #21

Ryan Shank got served papers for an unpaid $35 toll and a $50 penalty. The vlog cuts between the lawsuit chaos and his startup's week at Techstars: code reviews with Mike, John, and Noah, a landing page redesign, and sales demos that taught him rapport matters more than pitch.
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You go to jail for that. Damn, it feels good to be a gangster. This is my— we do like a blog. Sorry. What's going on? To take a look at our code because we don't know, like, we want to basically figure out if our engineers are efficient or not. So we're going to like be like, yo, can you guys look under the hood at our code and basically like speed of output? And we just want to make sure that like, one, that it's like clean and all this stuff, but then also that it's like they're operating at a fast pace. I think they are, but like we don't know. Yeah, 16 West 22nd on the 6th floor. I can come down to the lobby if you want. Yo, my heart is racing. So there was a note on my door yesterday that I'm getting served papers for a lawsuit from a process server. So I called them. He's gonna go to my apartment today. I gave him the address and we're going to get him right now. I don't know, I hope it's just a fucking medical bill or something that I just owe. What the fuck, I'm nervous. Yo, we're right here. Yo, this is mad scary. Hey, what's up? What's in the bag? Toll ticket. What's in here? Oh, is this for unpaid tolls? Yeah. Dude, you scared me, yo. 6 foot, uh, I don't know, let's measure. No, no, that's all. Give a ruler. 6 foot what? Let's measure. I haven't measured. Is this a real lawsuit? Yes, it is. For a toll? Yeah. How much you want, $2.20? No, I want $2.15. I'm getting sued for a toll? Yeah, you can go to jail for that. You can go to jail for that. Damn, it feels good to be a gangster. For a $35 toll? You stole from the state. Have a good one, man. Thank you. Yo! Lawsuit papers for a $35 toll. What? Yes, for a $35 toll. Should we just pay it? No, he's going to jail for it, bro. You're going to jail for that. I'm shaking. This is a— this has got to be a fucking joke. My man just staked out. What do I got to do to make it go away? I think you gotta go to jail for that. You stole from the state. You stole from the state. Motherfucker, my EZ Pass. I had an EZ Pass. We were on a break! We were on a break! I'm not crying, so— This is a joke. This is a fucking joke. Look what it's for. I just got— Toll road violation. For a $35 toll. This is a lot of fucking paper. How many tolls did I fucking run? It was all for $35? Wait, I don't know. That's what the front— I didn't even read the page one. I didn't read the second page. $50 civil penalty. Alright, I'll pay the $50. What do I— are we— are these— do you think these are each one? Like, these are like all? Yo, they're like suing me, but I saw something else where it was like a hun— like, what is this? What's like— what do I gotta do to make it go away? Yo, what the fuck? I think I can pay it, right? Because it says something like here, look, if mailed before civil warrant, May 17th. We already fucking— fuck. Yo, if I go to jail for this Yo, I gotta text— I gotta call my lawyer. Yo, Mike, make this go away. What are we gonna do? That's not what you paid me for. That's not my expertise. Oh, I got hella offenses, yo, and I'm gonna have so many in Florida because— why does this keep saying $500? Like, this is like— keep— it keeps getting more. This is Elon Musk's fault. He needs a bit of better windshield. Yeah, should make his windshield let fucking E-ZPasses go through. Yo, I was I thought I like killed someone, legit. I was like, yo, I fucking must have like killed someone. I'm going to jail. I'm dead. Like, I'm so scared. Everything. I'm going to jail for life. No, I don't know. That's scary, man. Has that ever happened to you? Yeah. No, it hasn't. You know, I knew today I didn't have a driver's license. You're like, I don't even have any tolls that I could run. I couldn't run a toll. Even if I wanted to run a toll. Guys, the lesson here, don't run tolls, pay your tolls, get an EZ Pass. What's the daily takeaway? Daily takeaway, don't run tolls, you'll live a stress-free life. Don't get sued, you don't want anyone to hate you. I was thinking like in my head, I was like, do I even have any enemies? Like I was like, who would be even like suing me? And I couldn't even think of any, which is a good thing, but I was like, yo, there's some crazy person out there fucking the toll booth. Yo, look at Noah. Noah, Noah went through that. Noah's got us. So we started building this like landing page. So check this out. Wait, did I send you the link? All right, so we're changing up our landing page. Mike did a sick-ass redesign. Now we're design— like we're actually getting it cut up. So this is like literally in progress based on his design. Today we also did like, uh, probably 3 demos. So John was doing most of the demos today. Yeah, he's doing pretty good though, huh? I haven't been paying attention to the demos, but his calls are definitely— no, even his demo, like the way he talks to them, I think, is pretty good. The thing is that I wanna do is that I think that I do, and I do it deliberately, is like, you gotta almost have a comp— you can't be like just business, like, you know, just sales, just about fucking call tracking. Like, you gotta talk about other stuff, and that's like when you build rapport with these guys where they don't think you're coming in with this huge agenda, you know? You're fucking around and talking about like the Poconos, and like, you know, it's like you wanna be a person, a human, versus like, I'm only gonna talk to you about call tracking software and like our deck and our software, where they're like, that's just like weird, you know? That's not like very organic. Then they're gonna want to help you. They're gonna want to give you the benefit of the doubt. They're gonna want to close and like buy from you because like they're not gonna feel that level of connectivity with a competitor, you know. It's like, as we've already proven, like these guys are not loyal right now to like anyone. Like they totally will jump ship if they have like a better price or if we can do exactly what they're doing but like a little bit easier and that sort of thing. So they think sales is gonna be too easy like under Underestimating. Underestimating, yeah, that's a great word. I forgot the rest of the word. I knew it was under something. Yeah, they're like underestimating how hard it is. Like one dude, like, oh, I'm gonna do like 10 demos. We're like fucking 3 people on the phones all day doing 10 demos right now. And they're like, and then the guy's like, I don't wanna like outbound call or a cold email. Like, you know, I wanna do like some cool stuff. I'm like, yeah, like I wanna just like get paying customers too without doing it. But it's like, you gotta fucking put in the work, bro. So yeah, and then we met with some mentors today. I met with some dude. Nick killed it today. What, 3? 2 demos set? Give a little takeaway. What's working right now? What's working? Just being conversational. I mean, like, I know one guy, I was telling him how I used to go to lacrosse camp up in Virginia. He actually went too, so we actually knew one of the same camp counselors, and from that we just Where in Virginia? In Richmond. You told someone that I used to live in Richmond. I heard you. Yes. I didn't live in Richmond. I lived in Fairfax. It was close. Thursday. Second week at Techstars. We outta here. We had our biggest week again for the second week in a row. So we're out. We're leaving. And we out.
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