[hylaride]

Success is a relative term. If you follow his blog ( https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/ ), it's been a slog in many ways. If it's not Live Nation, it's the municipal/state government, NIMBYs, etc. The retail/entertainment industry is also full of terrible and/or expensive companies that do everything from PoS/inventory down to suppliers being monopolies themselves. He's definitely a curmudgeon, but DNA lounge has been a struggle. He's even had to resort to setting up donations.

He's made it abundantly clear that while he's rich, he doesn't have infinite money.

[readthenotes1]

Keeping that bar open is a testimony to obsession.

Sound, sidewalks, toilets, pizza, overreach, the story is full of tragedy and perseverance.