5 hour energy founder, Manoj Bhargava, philanthropist

[OxQQme]

"If you have wealth, it's your duty to help others."
"I'd like to serve the bottom half of the world."

[ErikJ]

1. Brilliant.

[Warpy]

2. Mythbusters did a study of energy drinks

and 5 Hour was the only one that increased speed and accuracy on cognitive tests with no crash a few hours later. In fact, the speed was still up beyond the 5 hours.

I just thought I'd throw that in. It's nice to know sales of the stuff might be helping people with appropriate small scale leapfrog technology.

[NightWatcher]

3. Too bad his product tastes like you've licked Willy Wonka's asshole

I'll stick to my Redbull for energy kicks.


Glad he's using his nasty tasting profits for good.

[ohnoyoudidnt]

6. Personally, I don't think Red Bull tastes much better.

At least with 5 Hour Energy, I can chug it and use a chaser. Of course, different people have different tastes.

[silverweb]

4. What he's doing is amazing and inspiring.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]The energy drink just gave him the means to do real good in the world, and he's running with it.

Don't miss the full 43-minute video about what he's doing with the profits from that first product:

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. KnR

[madokie]

8. In all my wisdom of 67 years of living

I still haven't tried any of those so called energy drinks. Course I'm the same guy who never liked speed of any kind, well any that didn't come from twisting a handlebar or mashing my right foot down. I do like that kind

[malaise]

12. I have never tasted one either

We also don't drink any supplements and the vitamins folks aren't cashing in on us either.

Our energy drink is coffee

[madokie]

13. Same here

and I'm drinking my coffee right now. One maybe two cups of pretty weak coffee and thats it

[malaise]

14. Same here - but I have three or four cups

between 5.00am and 10.00am. It is rare for me to drink coffee after noon.

[MowCowWhoHow III]

9. "Pedal for an hour, electricity for 24 hours"

Maybe 24hrs minimal draw (LED lighting), you're not going to be running any significant household goodies from 1 hour of cycling.

[hobbit709]

10. there's a large chunk of the world that doesn't have any lighting outside of a fire

So even a LED light indoors would help.

[MowCowWhoHow III]

11. Agreed, just wanted to ground any claims within touching distance of reality