Oh hey friends what's up welcome to Side Usall School it's Chris Gillibault your host and I've got the first failure Friday story of July

this is gonna be episode 2379 here we are in the middle of summer northern hemisphere summer at least I know we got folks out there in South Africa Australia New Zealand elsewhere

but in my part of the world it is getting warm and I usually try to take a short little nap almost every day every afternoon for about 15 minutes 15 20 minutes

but I notice in the summer I always want to sleep a little bit more and

Sleeping is what we're gonna talk about today if you ever get tired in the office and you want to take a little nap

Well, maybe you need a snooze cube. I know that's starting to sound like an ad, but it's not it is in fact a failed startup story a

Failure from the founder of this product snooze cubes sleeping pods for offices

And if you never heard of this business it's because it never got up to Super Bowl ad level

In fact the business did not go so well

So failure Friday is all about stories of things that don't go well

Disasters mistakes missed steps and of course failure

What happened what are the person learned how can we be inspired not just from all the big successes

But also from the attempts that well kind of go in a different direction

So I'm gonna hand it over to Jake the founder of snooze cubes. Let's hear the story from him

I'm Jake a former tech worker turned a spiring entrepreneur from Boston

After several years in the corporate world. I noticed the pattern

colleagues sneaking in naps in their cars or even under their desk

We had recreation rooms, game rooms, but no space to catch a quick nap

Thus the idea for snooze cubes office sleep pods was born

The concept was simple. I wanted to sell small personal sleeping pods to companies

Providing their employees a space to catch some shut eye during those extra long work hours. I

Envisioned a sleek futuristic looking capsule complete with mood lighting and sound proofing

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