SmellMyChocha

Whooo boy.

1. First product was a failure
2. I got shaken down by corrupt cops in China and I had to flee the country. I lost a bunch of money in the process and all my employees in China.
3. I got counterfeited by two my employees in China
4. I have a long 4 year litigation with a company called Creative Kids which is killing me slowly
5. I had to work a ton on myself. I had to realize that I sucked and that I needed to get better to make this business work.
   

There are many more I'm not thinking of but entrepreneurship is not for the faint of heart.

Hacker News approaches everything from a software perspective. They really do not understand patents for physical products. Patents are an incentives for inventors to create. Without them, there'd be no reason to go through the painstaking process of innovation because larger companies could copy without impunity.

I have to say Molson right?

My dad actually worked for the brewery in Montreal but to be honest, I never drink the stuff.

My brother's named Hilton.

He's where he was conceived and I am why

#44 here (from patent); see red arrow: https://imgur.com/a/qJ7I5tN

It's hugely important.

HEre is full patent link: https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/91/ef/9f/845dc1b0d31cb5/US20210394076A1.pdf