Surviving $100M valuation to $0 in 10 days

Eman Pahlavani, HUNGRY, Covid Recession, Food, Funding, Mental Game

Today’s guest didn’t think of himself as an entrepreneur but he found himself building a company that actually saved lives using technology. We’ll find out how he did that in this interview.

But the thing that he’s really excited about these days is his new company which he built from scratch. Eman Pahlavani is the founder of HUNGRY, a catering company that connects independent chefs with corporate clients. He got funding from some big name investors like Jay-Z and Kevin Hart just 10 days before his revenue went to $0 due to COVID.

But wait until you hear what happened next.

Eman Pahlavani

HUNGRY

Eman Pahlavani is the founder of HUNGRY, a catering company that connects independent chefs with corporate clients.

Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy, where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses. Joining me is a guy who his parents told them, go be a lawyer, come on, be a lawyer. And he, he was, and he immediately hated it. Is that fair to say, Humanae,

Eman: fair to say. That’s absolutely true to say.

Andrew: the dude ends up discovering this company that goes on to.

Wild success much more than I, you couldn’t have imagined that you were going to be as successful as you are with LiveSafe. Right.

Eman: no, not at all. I don’t even think I was, you know, an entrepreneur in any way.

Andrew: How would you describe what live safe is?

Eman: live safe is a mobile app that essentially allows people to crowdsource safety intelligence and send it typically to campus PD. Um, or if you work in a company to your head of security at the company. So it was just...

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