Let's Check In On Our Friend

Big news: our friend, Dani Zoldan, the comedy club owner with a chronic inability to pay the money he owes people, just launched an app. It’s called Sidebar, and it allows entrepreneurs to find other entrepreneurs working nearby, connect, and meet up for a modest fee of $5 apiece, or $10 per meeting. Here are some carefully edited slides he posted on Instagram:

But wait! That’s not all. Our friend, Dani Zoldan, the comedy club owner who stiffed his creditors and employees and even the lawyers who represented him in a lawsuit brought by the employees he stiffed, also just hosted a secret meeting of IDF soldiers in New York City, featuring the rabidly pro-genocide comedian Michael Rapaport. Here are some pictures of the meeting he posted on Instagram:

But wait! That’s not all. Our friend, Dani Zoldan, the comedy club owner who received tens of thousands of bucks in Covid relief funding through his club’s network of single-employee side businesses, was sued earlier this year for $55,000 by Stripe, the online payment processor and small business lender: 

That’s on top of the $72,000 he owes the Workers’ Compensation Board of the State of New York, the $15,000 he owes a liquor vendor, the $26,000 he owes the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York, the $135,000 he owes two former employees whose wage theft lawsuit he settled, the $43,000 he owes his attorneys in that case, and the $214,000 he owes American Express, according to court filings. 

Is that a lot of money? To you and me, yes, it might seem that way. But to our friend Dani Zoldan, serial entrepreneur, it is simply 56,000 confirmed meetups on the Sidebar app. Let’s wish our friend the best of luck!