I've maybe missed the point of this discussion but the thing that strikes me the most is that the most meaningful example he brought forward in that pitch - his

I've maybe missed the point of this discussion but the thing that strikes me the most is that the most meaningful example he brought forward in that pitch - his niece living with him and having no connection - he had no solution for! I'd get it if he was identifying being isolated from others in a meaningful way as a problem and he'd come up with some magic beans to address this disconnect, for example to address when his niece came to stay with him and it resulted in a good outcome as opposed to what actually happened. But that's not what happened. He was just frustrated. What was there to pitch/learn and apply for others in this story? Very strange. I'm obviously missing something. Hopefully someone can point it out