Sisun Lee loved his job as an engineer at Tesla. He had absolutely no intention of quitting and starting his own company.
But what started out as a fun side project to find a cure for hangovers has grown so big, he felt he had to quit his job this week and launch a company.
On July 5, his startup
Morning Recovery, will be open for business, where it will sell an FDA-compliant hangover cure.
The whole thing started about a year ago, when the then 26-year-old Lee took a trip to his home country of South Korea, a land known for
its partying ways. And that meant he spent a lot of time with his friends getting drunk. But instead suffering from hangovers, his Korean buddies turned him on to the hangover cure drinks that are popular there.
Those drinks worked for him, Lee told Business Insider. "The next day, I woke up feeling great."
When he returned to the US he searched for similar drinks but they didn't work for him as well. He bought some Korean ones online and shared them with his friends, particularly his buddies at his former job at Facebook. They loved them and everyone wanted more.
"I tried to import them" and become a distributor, he told Business Insider, but these companies weren't interested in having someone they didn't know, with no background in beverages or consumer goods represent them in the US.
Then he got an idea. Could he just make the drink himself? He had taken three years of nanotechnology/biotech engineering in college before changing majors to computer science.
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