Dave Portnoy tours empty NYC storefronts as Barstool Fund receipts top $27M for small businesses

Dave Portnoy knows what it's like to be a small businessman, which is why he started the "Barstool Fund" to help small business affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

"It took me two decades," he added. "We've been doing it two decades, [and it took 10 years maybe before I turned a profit. If this thing [the pandemic] hit at year 10, you rip away basically my entire adult life's work." Portnoy launched the Barstool Fund last month with $500,000 of his own money. As of Tuesday night, a total of 193,731 donors had contributed more than $27.6 million. "It's about trying to help small business in general," Portnoy told Kilmeade, gesturing toward several eerily empty Midtown eateries. "Obviously, if you walk around New York, which we are doing, you see there's a lot of businesses in trouble or gone. We fast-forward all the way to the end of December, and they closed indoor dining. They had opened it up a little bit and right before the holidays they said they were getting rid of it.