Dan Fleyshman

So let's go into, we talked a bit about the making money side and the beverage side.

We talked a bit about the making money side and some of the business side. Let's talk about investing. You invested in Next Health, you've invested in multiple brands. Why do you enjoy investing into brands and what makes you say yes?

We talked a bit about the making money side and some of the business side. Let's talk about investing. You invested in Next Health, you've invested in multiple brands. Why do you enjoy investing into brands and what makes you say yes?

So you're out in an event.

So you're out in an event.

So I tell people I only invest in companies that I can help. Right. So if you do heart surgeries, God bless you. I can't help you do heart surgeries. You make sweaters with hearts on them. I'm your guy. Right. I can help you sell a million of those. And so I try to be very, very specific to it.

So I tell people I only invest in companies that I can help. Right. So if you do heart surgeries, God bless you. I can't help you do heart surgeries. You make sweaters with hearts on them. I'm your guy. Right. I can help you sell a million of those. And so I try to be very, very specific to it.

Even if something is appealing to me, if I don't know the industry and I can't help them, I don't want to be what's called dumb money. I don't want to just put in 25K, 100K, 500K, put a check in and not be able to help. Yeah. I want to be able to help. Yeah. And that's why I like food and beverage space and I like this category because I can help them get more famous.

Even if something is appealing to me, if I don't know the industry and I can't help them, I don't want to be what's called dumb money. I don't want to just put in 25K, 100K, 500K, put a check in and not be able to help. Yeah. I want to be able to help. Yeah. And that's why I like food and beverage space and I like this category because I can help them get more famous.

I can help them with connections, et cetera. But yeah, it's important what he was mentioning is that if you find something that you like or you find something that you trust, you need the founder to be what I call ride or die. I need a founder that they're at the convention and at 1120 p.m.,

I can help them with connections, et cetera. But yeah, it's important what he was mentioning is that if you find something that you like or you find something that you trust, you need the founder to be what I call ride or die. I need a founder that they're at the convention and at 1120 p.m.,

the plumbing goes out and the water breaks and it's all over the booth and it's you know the booth is flooded he's gonna show up yeah or she's gonna show up at midnight to go fix it yeah and she's gonna be there he's gonna be there cleaning it if she had to not just be like oh I'll deal with in the morning yeah you can't have that you need someone to ride or die because no matter how good a business is or how good a brand is stuff's gonna happen headaches are gonna happen problems gonna happen lawsuits are gonna happen employees are gonna leave there's always gonna be frustration situations throughout the course of a business and you need an entrepreneur that's right or die yeah

the plumbing goes out and the water breaks and it's all over the booth and it's you know the booth is flooded he's gonna show up yeah or she's gonna show up at midnight to go fix it yeah and she's gonna be there he's gonna be there cleaning it if she had to not just be like oh I'll deal with in the morning yeah you can't have that you need someone to ride or die because no matter how good a business is or how good a brand is stuff's gonna happen headaches are gonna happen problems gonna happen lawsuits are gonna happen employees are gonna leave there's always gonna be frustration situations throughout the course of a business and you need an entrepreneur that's right or die yeah

so let's say you're at an event and you meet an entrepreneur she's amazing she's got a company she's doing a couple million bucks in sales she's like Oliver I would love for you to invest in my company what are the things you want to see from that founder for you to actually say you know what I'm going to put 100k into this business

so let's say you're at an event and you meet an entrepreneur she's amazing she's got a company she's doing a couple million bucks in sales she's like Oliver I would love for you to invest in my company what are the things you want to see from that founder for you to actually say you know what I'm going to put 100k into this business

Yeah.

Yeah.

So at the same event, you meet this really nice gentleman who's just raised a round of funding. He's got five million bucks for his first feature film. He wants you, Oliver, to be in his first feature film. What are the things you want to see from him to be able to say yes or no? I would actually put my name, likeness, and time to be in your movie.

So at the same event, you meet this really nice gentleman who's just raised a round of funding. He's got five million bucks for his first feature film. He wants you, Oliver, to be in his first feature film. What are the things you want to see from him to be able to say yes or no? I would actually put my name, likeness, and time to be in your movie.

On the movie side, would you ever do a passion project? Like, Jeremy Piven is doing the performance. And the performance is, he's on tour right now with it because it is in line to hopefully get an Oscar, or at least a nomination for the Oscar. So he's very excited. But it's taken him years and years. We talk about it all the time. And I love his passion behind it.