Ryan Shank and friends make matcha at Chelsea Market while discussing PhoneWagon, their startup in Techstars NYC. They talk about building a business from scratch and the challenges of staying authentic while growing an audience.
Now, Phone Wagon, they're the next people that's trying to help me now to become un-homeless. You understand? Phone Wagon, check them out because they on their way up.
Good morning, Wagoners! What's going on? It's Saturday. Today we are in Chelsea Market at the YouTube Studio. We're collabing with Rui Delgado. He's recording, he has a new video series that's set to drop that's gonna be dope. Rui, my man!
Where's the camera?
Right there. So guys, Rui, by the way, you guys should know this, but Rui intro'd me to Kane, who now you guys know Kane, he's in the vlogs and everything, 'cause Rui's been recording videos. He actually is the one who introduced me to YouTube and to the vlog scene.
I was in one of your videos already.
You were, right?
Remember?
Which one?
The, um—
Oh yeah, yeah, the first one!
Yeah, yeah, yeah. For those OG subscribers.
Thank you guys, thank you Rui for having us, 'cause like, you can't get into this space, by the way, unless you have a certain amount of subscribers, which Rui has that threshold to get us into this space. Uh, which is really, really cool. So this is our journey building PhoneWagon from the ground up, bootstrap. We're going through Techstars in New York City. I hope you guys are out there working hard, being pioneers, being wagonaires.
Welcome to the vlog!
Is this Ryan Shank? What you want? Stop declining it, Jade.
Come on, Jade.
Yo, Jade, you're the one who called me. I'm just calling you back. Yo, you can't even hit my snap back. Alright, so we're making matcha. We're making matcha with a young lady.
Matcha.
Yeah.
I was really nice about it. I wasn't like, you know. So you sift it.
Oh, we didn't do the sifting last time. This was not in the instructions.
This is new.
This is an added step, but it's sort of optional. Is this an upso? Give it a little whisk so it like breaks up the matcha powder.
Give it a try.
Try to whisk it.
Literally, it's all you need to do.
It's just kind of like relaxing too. Yeah, it's like warm. Yeah, it's like warm and—
It's a meditative experience.
Yeah, this is like nice.
Yeah, there you go.
Okay.
Is it a little frothy maybe?
Um, like a little.
Okay, that's good.
That's perfect.
Then we add a little more hot water.
So, okay, this should be better.
Try that. Is that almond milk?
Yeah.
Oh shit. What?
No, I only like almond milk.
That's good.
I mean, that is good.
Is that better? Yeah. Okay, alright. And usually they're like, okay, yeah, I'll give you 10 minutes, right? Because it's like they could potentially save money or they could potentially have a better product where, you know, their clients are happier. So, alright guys, we just dropped what I think is the funniest video that we've dropped so far. Now we're going to the YouTube Space in Chelsea Market to film a video with our friend Rui, and Kane has to direct the video, so that's what we're about to do. How funny is that? And then, so like what we did— Hey, so I'm not actually getting in the group.
It's anonymous but then it's not anonymous.
Yeah, that's like the exact— I'm trying to make it so it's like, it's not necessarily about our business, but it's like, hey, we're doing this. It's like relatable, you know? Like GaryVee does it, but he's like CEO of like a $200 million company, He's like, you know, worth like a couple hundred million bucks probably net worth. So it's like not super relatable, but like this, my whole point is like, hey, I want, you know, I want to show you what we're doing and I want to get a little bit more tactic stuff in there, you know, so people can like take it and like, yeah.
Honestly dude, like the one, like, I don't know if you followed like Gary's original vlog, like the first 10, 20 episodes, he was letting you sit in on the Geez, he sounded like the CEO of iHeartRadio.
Yeah, that's dope.
That was fun. Like when you let us sit in with the CEO of Techstars, that was fucking cool.
I wanted to hear what that guy had to say.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, David Cohen.
We're having such a hard time. Alright, Wagoneers, Canineers, here we are. We're going out to the YouTube Space. We're meeting up with my mans, Rui. We're go— I don't know what Florida puts. All right, I just want— I hit it, but— oh, you need a card.
No.
Yeah, you need a card. Still rolling, right? Yeah, you need a card. Yo, we're on 6R.
6R. It says 6R.
6R.
Oh, YouTube.
Maybe like YouTube Red is 5.
Yeah, no, no, I'm never stopping YouTube.
Like, I'm gonna livestream my death, probably. How does it feel to be in Rome right now?
In Rome?
Yeah, you are. Am I swimming now?
Now you are.
You weren't.
All right, see you guys.
What? All right, we got out.
Um, I'm just gonna go to the bathroom.
I'm not going to the bathroom. I'm pretending like I'm going to the bathroom and I'm just going to search around the space.
Yo, this space is dope. This is what you do when you get that cool money.
This is crazy. All right, I think I hit the end that way, so I'm going to go back out and— oh, look at this.
Now, Phone Wagon, they're the next people that's trying to help me now to become unhomless. You understand? Phone Wagon, check them out because they on their Way up.
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