7 killer startups that the internet has not caught up to yet

About this video

Sam and Shaan evaluate seven startup ideas by categorizing them as ‘good crazy’ or ‘bad crazy,’ arguing that great businesses often sound counterintuitive at first. They discuss pet tech, memorialization apps, hyperbaric chambers, VR trade training, biotech prediction markets, a bathhouse-steakhouse hybrid, and a games-only newspaper, then pivot to exploring the emerging ‘dumb phone’ trend as a response to smartphone addiction, including examples like Dum.co and a rotary phone Bluetooth device by Cat GPT.

Key takeaways

• Great startup ideas often sound ‘crazy’ at first—if everyone in the room agrees an idea is good, it’s probably not differentiated enough to succeed
• Shaan claims the ‘dumb phone’ space is becoming a macro trend, not a niche: a CNN study showed focus and memory improved after two weeks with a dumb phone, and a subreddit for dumb phones has grown to 200,000 subscribers
• Cat GPT sold $800,000 of rotary phone Bluetooth devices in five months and is tracking toward $5 million in annual revenue for 2026; the moat for these products is brand and marketing, not technology
• State management—using your body (temperature, breath, music, community) to control your mental state—is becoming a key value driver in wellness spaces like OtherShip and The Schvitz, not just the fitness or health claims themselves
• Young founders like Zack Yadagari (who sold a calorie-tracking app for reportedly $50-100 million) are moving into hardware as a less-saturated space with higher barriers to entry than apps and social content

Episode details: published June 2, 2026 · 36K views · 46:10 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. The business ideas, figures and results discussed are the hosts’ and guests’ own claims, shared as brainstorming and entertainment — not verified facts and not investment advice.

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