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Gabor Kadas

Gabor Kadas

CEO and Co-founder of Friending Inc., a social app helping adults build real-life friendships and combat loneliness.

Aug 21, 2026

17:13
don't know if you think about it this way, but it's almost like your verification system is essentially building psychological safety for strangers.
17:21
Yes, and one of the features that we'll actually have, special design for female users, I've been talking to a few of them, is that let's say you meet in a coffee shop and you feel uncomfortable.
17:35
Now, this feature isn't introduced yet, but using the Bluetooth stuff that we have programmed, you will be able to buy, I don't know, a Bluetooth key ring or a bracelet or some Bluetooth gadget, because the problem with the iPhone is that It will only communicate with Bluetooth unless the screen is on.
17:55
But if you tap the screen three times and you have this Bluetooth, I don't know, bracelet or something, that will be programmed to either alert the police, alert a friend or alert anybody in the neighborhood with friending.
18:09
So we're actually trying to create a very safe environment, even though we have verified you but as I said verification is not a background check it's just to say hey this is how you look like and you're called France or whatever you know but you could be anybody and so even if you feel uncomfortable there is a second stage of alertness or alert that you can send out and basically we picked a coffee shop as a good example because typically perhaps that's where you would meet for the first time and Because of that, and again, because of the offline activity, we were actually selling coffee on our website.
18:50
And the fun thing about our coffee, other than it's a good coffee, but it's nothing special, is A, the packaging, I think, is really nice.
18:59
That's the San Francisco.

13 MINS LATER

31:36
And I would love to know a little more about kind of how you plan to pitch investors on something that's You know, very opposite to probably a lot of the pitches that they're normally hearing when somebody's coming to them with an engagement platform like this.
KathyHOST
8:32
But I mean, now that I mentioned technology, how do you think has technology made us more connected, but somehow more lonely at the same time? It's very ironic, but it's very real and true.
8:45
Absolutely.
8:46
This is the most connected decade of human history.
8:51
But the problem is, as with everything else, it has been mistreated, misused.
8:58
A best example is probably a dating app, not like a friending app.
9:03
But on a dating app, you will see, I don't know what percentages, false or fake profiles.
9:11
And that's...

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KathyHOST
17:03
And, you know, they would play video games every now and then, but it's still very different from... actually socializing with people and actually connecting with people um i want to say making new friends is as scary as dating because there's also a fear of rejection when you try to make new friends and you don't know if this person likes you or if they're gonna want to be your friend I was wondering, do you have any tips on how to get over this fear of rejection when it comes to making new friends?

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