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Have you been to a work happy hour lately, standing around making awkward conversation with your coworkers, while Doug from accounting sits in the corner getting sloshed?

Well, today's entrepreneur thinks he has a better option.

So imagine, instead of going to a happy hour, you're actually able to go to a really fancy

kitchen and participate in a cooking competition.

Or instead of a pizza party, you're able to learn how to fly a drone and you're able to fly

it through an obstacle course to see who wins.

Ryan Husk says that experiences like these help keep millennials happy in the workplace

and make them more likely to stick around for longer. And that's kind of a big deal

because according to Gallup, millennial job hopping costs U.S. companies

more than $30 billion every year. That's why Ryan started Culture Force to help fix this problem. But in today's pitch Ryan will have to prove

to investors that he's not just a glorified party planner. From Gimlet, this is the pitch.

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