Veteran-Turned Tik-Tok Star Appears on ABC's 'Shark-Tank' to Share 'Remento'

Tune in to the latest episode of ABC's hit reality business pitch show "Shark Tank" and catch Navy veteran and Tik-Tok star "Patriotic Kenny" updating fans about his use of the online personal storytelling platform "Remento." The platform won a lucrative deal with businessman Mark Cuban on the show in March 2025 to help mass-market the product, and so far it's been a success.  

“We just hit one million stories recorded on our product," said Los Angeles-based Remento co-founder and CEO Charlie Greene, in an interview with Military.com. "That makes us the largest collection of self recorded videos and audio recordings of people over the age of 60, ever.”

Launched in 2021, Remento invites users to record themselves, either with video or audio, answering hundreds of thought-provoking prompts as a way to share their life’s journey. Subscribers can also upload photos to bring memories to life. Once complete, Remento creates a hardcover book with QR codes that link to a person's audio or video story in their own words.

According to the Remento website, the platform's 'Speech-to-Story' technology turns spoken words into either a word-for-word transcript or a structured narrative. "You record in audio or video, and we do the rest," it says online.

Greene maintains the platform is especially popular among military veterans like "Patriotic Kenny," who get the chance to share their stories from the trenches.  

“One of the things that’s been really inspirational to me is seeing how people are using Remento in their own families,” said Greene. “My favorite feedback that I hear is that 'I didn’t know my children or grandchildren were interested in these stories.'”

The Shark Tank "company update" show will also feature a book launch event that Greene and Cuban organized for "Patriotic Kenny" in December at the George W. Bush Presidential Museum and Library in College Station, Texas. The footage includes a $100,000 donation that Cuban presented to Kenny's non-profit, "the Patriotic Kenny Foundation," which funds mobility scooters for disabled veterans.

"I'm on a mission, yes," said Kenny, 84, in a behind-the-scenes clip from his "Shark Tank" update episode. "Donating scooters for veterans across the county who are in need of scooters so they can get out of isolation and do the things they need to do."

"Patriotic Kenny", whose real name is Kenny Jary, says he knows the feeling of being an isolated veteran. For years, he says, he had been searching for a way to tell his story of serving our country in the Navy. He says his Remento book is a dream come true.

"Everything. The pictures. I couldn't believe it," Kenny said on Youtube about his personal story captured with Remento. "Tears actually came to my eyes, and I tried not to cry. But they were good tears. That book is so beautiful."

Greene also has a personal story that led him to co-create the Remento platform.

"I lost my dad on 9/11, and years later, after my mom was diagnosed with cancer, I realized how much of her story I hadn’t recorded," he said. "But I had the amazing blessing of growing up with two parents who loved the camcorder. So I had this treasure trove of content that I could digitize."

That's how Remento was born. Greene realized that if he could digitize personal moments from his own parents, others might want to do the same.

"In one video, my dad is eating a bagel the day I was born and talking about how nervous he was to get the car seat connected into the back of the car," recalled Greene. "It was such a real and human moment that was recorded on that camcorder, just an everyday moment that the video camera captured.”

Though Greene lost his dad on the September 11th attacks, his mom survived her lung cancer and was able to record her own Remento story.

"So we sat down to talk about her childhood. And I asked her mom why am I just hearing these stories for the first time," said Greene. "And she said 'I didn’t think you cared.'”

Remento's website offers users the chance to try before they buy the service, with test questions that prompt customers to open up, including "Did you ever move houses as a kid?" or "Did you have any pets growing up?" or "What games did you love playing as a kid?" The website also notes, “With Remento, a year of spoken memories becomes a keepsake book, featuring your storyteller’s voice. No writing required."

"Patriotic Kenny" says the prompts were especially helpful to him as an Octogenarian with so many stories to tell.

"It's authentic. It's got everything there," Kenny said. "The pictures, even the pictures of my scooter."

That's satisfaction for Greene, who says the best part about Remento is seeing how it's bringing families of different generations together.

"It's not about creating a thing for your coffee table," Greene said. "It's about helping families see and hear the stories, the sacrifice, and the acts of service their loved ones carried out in a way that's being preserved.”

The latest episode of "Shark Tank" featuring "Patriotic Kenny" and Remento airs on March 25, 2026, on ABC.