How a College Student Built the Disney FastPass for Bars

About this episode

Ethan Karian discusses his journey of creating SipSkip, a hospitality technology platform, and shares insights on entrepreneurship and innovation.

At just 23 years old, Ethan Karian is already chasing a vision he’s had since childhood: building a company that disrupts an entire industry. Raised by two entrepreneurs and inspired by the lessons of Think and Grow Rich, Ethan shares how years of self-education, early business failures, and relentless ambition led him to create SipSkip, a hospitality technology platform transforming the way people order drinks at bars, festivals, and stadiums. In this episode of Living Your Legacy, Ethan reveals the moment the idea struck him at a crowded LSU bar, why he abandoned another business to go all-in on SipSkip, and how he approaches entrepreneurship with a fail fast mindset. Along the way, he shares powerful lessons about belief, resilience, team building, innovation, and creating something so simple that competitors struggle to improve upon it. Key Takeaways • Why failing fast gives entrepreneurs a competitive advantage • How childhood exposure to entrepreneurship shaped his mindset • Why self-education can accelerate success beyond traditional learning • The importance of pivoting when a bigger opportunity appears • How simplicity can become a company's greatest competitive…

People in this episode

Host: Rudy Mawer

Guest: Ethan Karian

Topics covered

• entrepreneurship
• hospitality technology
• self-education
• business innovation
• resilience
• fail fast mindset

Keywords

• SipSkip
• Ethan Karian
• entrepreneurship
• hospitality technology
• fail fast
• self-education
• business innovation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: SipSkip, Think and Grow Rich

Places: LSU

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