About Dead Meat Society

Dead Meat Society was born when our founder and CGO (Chief Grilling Officer), Jake Kouns, hit a crossroads. After years building a successful cybersecurity company, he found himself in a strange spot: no longer working for the company he founded, feeling directionless and increasingly disconnected. 

While he was trying to figure out what was the next phase of his career, one ridiculous idea refused to leave his brain: a skull spatula. It started as a fun product concept, but the more he thought about it, and through conversations with friends, grillers, and other founders, he realized a lot of people felt exactly like he did just with their own set of circumstances. Jake was seeing more and more isolation (particularly with men), more doom-scrolling, more arguing about politics between people than ever before. The pandemic didn’t create that feeling, but it supercharged it, and he noticed that it wasn’t just him feeling this way.

Instead of launching another tech/AI company, Jake made a different call. So Dead Meat Society was founded with a mission to become bigger than a skull spatula.

A community to bring grilling enthusiasts together to fight loneliness and feed our communities.

What started as one founder’s career pivot is now a growing movement, getting people back around the flame, where we’ve always belonged, and taking care of our communities.

Flame. Family. Community.

Feed Everyone.