What Happened To Kyle Sandler From Generation Hustle?

April 2024 · 2 minute read

Unlike other "Generation Hustle" subjects, Kyle Sandler didn't try to defraud big money targets in Manhattan or Silicon Valley — Sandler went after people in a small Alabama town. The faux Google employee launched a business incubator in Opelika called Round House, per AL.com. Sandler's business incubator hooked 50 investors, including John McAfee, who created the famous anti-virus software.

The saddest part of Sandler's scam was that he hurt a child with his lies. Sandler became a mentor for young entrepreneurs in the area and met Taylor Rosenthal, who was 13. The young teen came up with a business idea to put vending machines at baseball parks. Sandler tricked Taylor and his parents into believing that Johnson & Johnson and Six Flags were interested in paying millions of dollars for the vending machine business idea. Software guru McAfee told AL.com, "That was the most tragic of the things he did. ... He used that kid viciously."

As The Wall Street Journal said of Sandler and the other scammers on the series, "Money isn't always the objective. Ego is part of the equation. Pathologies, too, which is what makes the cases so interesting."

So where is Sandler now? Well, it seems his scamming days are over. In 2020, Sandler was sentenced to over five years in jail and was ordered to return $1.9 million to investors. Hopefully, he has learned his lesson.

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