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post 1441548251 05-11-2016, 01:59 PM
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that's a clever way to sell a company

word gets out about the impossible to verify offer and then some fool makes a real one
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He turned it down cuz he probably already wealthy, how else he gonna come up with the money to design and manufacture that thing
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this isn't even a new concept, why would a company offer $30M for something they could build on their own for less (maybe)
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Originally Posted By Ratfish⏩
that's a clever way to sell a company

word gets out about the impossible to verify offer and then some fool makes a real one
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post 1441578621 05-11-2016, 04:45 PM
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Originally Posted By Ratfish⏩
that's a clever way to sell a company

word gets out about the impossible to verify offer and then some fool makes a real one
I'm 110% sure this is the case.


Who the fuk values a first-aid vending machine company at $30M? Seriously?


1. How many people need first aid often enough to demand vending machines of this sort be present.

2. Almost anywhere that you go in public has a first aid kit, and someone who knows how to administer first aid; stores, malls, subway stations, sports facilities, gyms, where you work, etc. etc. This is a law in Canada

3. In nearly every first world country (minus the US), first aid by almost anyone is free, as are the adhesives/bandages/etc.

4. If this is for poor/cheap countries..what the fuk is he thinking? This would never work.

5. Any sensible person being offered 30M for something like that would jump on the opportunity to sell it for 1/10th that price.
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Would of taken the money and used it to 10 more start-ups
and own a ****ing Ferrari my sophomore year of high-school
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Originally Posted By mcdojo⏩
how often would you even need first aid in a vending machine format
I can see them being placed in parks and National wildlife reserves where people go camping and hiking and chit. You just tell the machine what ailment you have (say poison ivy) and it dispenses a bottle of calamine lotion, lol IDK.
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HE would have destroyed himself he took that money.

Relatives suddenly coming in his life, guilting him, asking for hand outs.
Parents potentially greedy fuks, kick him out for not giving him cash if he refuses
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Harrassing him until he regularly gives them money, when he loses it all or he cuts them off, they all disappear.

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Originally Posted By RobElite⏩
You know maybe he was right but I doubt it, heshould of taken the money.
Just shut up you illiterate moron.
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Kid is stupid. No way is that worth $30 million. There's first aid kits around various buildings all over the place.
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Originally Posted By pWally⏩
Would of taken the money and used it to 10 more start-ups
and own a ****ing Ferrari my sophomore year of high-school
Wtf is wrong with all you morons on this site?!??

Would of???
WOULD HAVE you dumb fuk
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Yeah this whole 30m offer is def a marketing ploy due to him being young. They knew it would get blasted all over the news outlets.

Now he got some exposure but just lol at this idea being worth $30 mil.. there's no way.

Plus, these things already exist as someone else pointed out. There's nothing stopping anyone from making a vending machine that supplies first aid materials.

Also, what the fck kind of sketchy ass basketball tournament doesn't have first aid supplies COURT-SIDE? lmao

This is all such bull****
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Originally Posted By whitepaper⏩
I'm 110% sure this is the case.


Who the fuk values a first-aid vending machine company at $30M? Seriously?


1. How many people need first aid often enough to demand vending machines of this sort be present.

2. Almost anywhere that you go in public has a first aid kit, and someone who knows how to administer first aid; stores, malls, subway stations, sports facilities, gyms, where you work, etc. etc. This is a law in Canada

3. In nearly every first world country (minus the US), first aid by almost anyone is free, as are the adhesives/bandages/etc.

4. If this is for poor/cheap countries..what the fuk is he thinking? This would never work.

5. Any sensible person being offered 30M for something like that would jump on the opportunity to sell it for 1/10th that price.
This. You couldnt pay me to take over this business.

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brb said machine has $7 worth of expired ibuprofen in it
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brb junkies breaking into it for cotton balls

im calling bs on this article.
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Kid is 14 and parents both happen to work in medical field, yeah I'm sure the idea didn't come from his parents.

30 million bid declined for a fuking vending machine, considering you can get them which dispense everything from food to tampons to used panties I hardly think shoving in first aid kits is revolutionary where the world is filled with people crying out for plasters and bandages on a street corner.

Sounds more like a BS story to get people to invest in the business and the kid airtime on TV, because who's going to show 2 doctors with an invention like this and not think it's shyt, but put a "14 year old business genius" at the front and everyone wants to know about the wonder kid.
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holy f*ck he should have sold it. There is no way this is real.
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idiot kid, take the money plus 5% for income from that company profit for life.
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He's probably hoping to get these in place before the apocalypse, when there might actually be some demand for them. Then he can just kick back and let the post-apocalyptic money/poosay come to him.





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30 million can buy a lot of uggz and ipadz.
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I'm calling BS.

Why would that startup be worth 30 mil?

Who would even need first aids from a vending machine?

A vending machine ain't exactly a new concept either.
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Originally Posted By EnforcerOTF⏩
It will be in every amusement park, city block, stadium, recreation center in the world. kid knows what hes doing. $30m will be a drop in the bucket in 5 years
All of those places already have first aid kits on hand and they're free to use in the event that someone actually requires first aid.

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should have shown the boy $30M in food, then his salivating ass would have accepted.
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Originally Posted By alphafreak⏩
If he is being offered 30 mil its worth way more than that kid is smart, when ******** was starting out google and microsoft offered mark a lot of money for it and he turned them down I am sure you smart guys would have told him to take the money.
lol what's a 14 year old gonna do with ****ing 200+ mil.
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$30,000,000 for a vending machine, and he didn't take it? He could invest that chit conservatively and pay for a sweet car at 16 and his entire college education while living baller life on the yield he earns in high school alone.

More like ReccedMed.

Going to follow this kid's story so I can fap when he ends up 9-to-5ing at an entry level IT job.
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Nothing to see here. Just another mysterious multi million dollar startup story to feed the gullible goyim to show them that the "American Dream" is still possible.

Funny how 99% of these startup millionaires are Jewish. So who do you think the investors are? Just LOL.

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Originally Posted By velvetmudhole⏩
If I was his parents he would need that bending machine to get a needle and thread to stitch up his face after I busted it


Also. Nice work capitalizing on someone on need of first aid.
So you actually believe he did it by himself?
lol

it was made by his parents and they put it under their kid's name ... just like what happens to all other 'child inventors' that we hear about at a young age and then they disappear one year later
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Originally Posted By Chazb0⏩
Did anyone read the article? Disney has ordered 100 of these already. The kid is going make bank.
Fckin A...no wonder he turned it down.

That little bstard is going to be pushing kids all over the Disney parks just to boost sales.
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