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Here's what a yonder phone pouch is. It's this contraption that basically prevents you from accessing your phone, which is the greatest drug on earth. I just have this incredibly high level of conviction that some sort of locking phones away is going to be a part of kids' futures, you know, and in a lot of other environments too. And here's where I think the potential for innovation is. There's a huge opportunity to identify an elegant feature set around this pouch that just makes it work a lot better.
If you were going to create Yonder 2.0 or Yonder for XYZ niche, how would you actually go about doing so? Adam Robinson, you've made it to the Startup Ideas podcast.
This is the highlight of my career. This is literally, it's only downhill from here. I'm so excited to be here. I feel like I'm on a mountaintop. By the way, I was on a mountaintop all of last week. I was in the woods in Colorado, sitting like a monk, basically. reflecting on life i was nature getting nature therapy you like really achieve deep inner peace if you're totally unplugged and in solitude it happens to everyone we live like that for a million years before we uh were evolved to do that you know um but it's just hard for people like us, right? You're busy. You have, you know, family maybe or whatever. And it's like, uh, maybe later, maybe when my kids are older and then you never do it. So I just keep doing it. And it's like so great because it actually helps you with the time with your kids. That's how to prioritize it.
So anyway, so you were on that mountain top, you were brainstorming startup ideas. You decided, you decided to text me. We're now here. Um, and, and I'm ecstatic cause I, you're the real deal. You've built, I mean, you've built businesses from zero to 20 million ARR completely bootstrapped. So when you talk, I listen. That's rare.
Yeah.
Not many people end up doing that for a lot of reasons, which we agree are stupid. Some of them, you know, exactly, exactly. So, um, let's just, let's just get into it. You know, what's on your mind right now and what could you share with, with people? So look, I, um,
You know, to this nature theme, right? Like we lived in the woods for a million years. And then a couple thousand years ago, we started living in cities, which pulled our brains in a totally different direction that we're not physically evolved to be in. Then 150 years ago, the industrial revolution happened. And for a large part of the population, it really made them live in a crappy environment. Then connectivity happened whenever it was 10 years ago, which is literally the worst. So the yonder phone patch exists for a lot of reasons, right? Like, This device is like fentanyl for us, and it's so powerful that we've literally had to create a pouch to go in and respect a comedian, for instance, and actually listen. Otherwise, we'd just be on our phones getting our monkey mind whipped around by whatever alert or text message that doesn't matter from someone that we receive.
I think this like take this device that I know is absolute kryptonite for my well-being and like put it in a place where idiot proof this, like put it in a place where I can't touch it is like a massive market for the future. And it's very in its infancy. You know, how many schools have a yonder patch? Like hardly any. My guess is in 10 years, 98% of middle schools are requiring people to put their phone in a pouch and lock it during the day. That's my guess.
So there's probably people who don't even know what a yonder patch is.
Yeah, okay, okay. So here's what a yonder phone pouch is. And I hope that I'm going to inspire a lot of innovation out there because the yonder phone patch only works in one way, right? Which I think is the tremendous opportunity because there's a lot of people who would prefer it to not work in this way. So if you go in Austin, like if you go to Joe Rogan's comedy place called The Mothership, as you walk in the door, They literally require you to take your phone out of your pocket, put it in this pouch. Then they touch the pouch to a device that locks the pouch and you cannot open the pouch until you touch it to that device again. So your phone's there, you're holding it, but you can't access it.
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