Shark Tank

“You know, if, you know, if I was going to value it, would I have more than twenty million of value? Absolutely. So out of the 70 give or take companies that I've invested in, I'd say two are out of business, two are out of business and just aren't smart enough…”

“If there's an entrepreneur who's got their life tied up in something, I'm not going to be mean, right? I'm going to be supportive and I'll come up with suggestions even if I'm not investing. But if you're trying to scam me, if you're trying to pull a quickie o…”

“Barbara Corcoran, by the way, she was initially rejected for her spot on Shark Tank. They went with a younger woman. So Barbara wrote a letter to the producer, and it said, I consider your rejection a lucky charm, because everything that ever happened in my li…”

“I'm very biased. They have a much better shot at succeeding.”

“I went for an audition, and they ended up using the pilot as the first couple of episodes, Shark Tank, and before I know it, the show that I thought would never get anywhere and sucked with these, you know, five business people just talking business all the ti…”

“As for Shark Tank, he's put about Eight and a half million of his own dollars into companies featured on the show.”

“The show that I thought would never get anywhere and sucked with these, you know, five business people just talking business all the time, who wants to see that? Before I know it, you know, we're going into our 10th year.”

“I am really proud to have built the largest company ever to appear on Shark Tank.”

“I took Shark Tank seriously. Like, I mean, and when I mean seriously, I had 300 questions that I thought that they would do. I watched every single Shark Tank episode multiple times that had been on to that point.”

“So I was the first person ever to sort of be, you know, on the show as an entrepreneur and then go as a shark”

“And so we got, in the end, it was millions of dollars of sales from being on Shark Tank,”

“So the first offer was Kevin. So Kevin says, I'll give you that 500 grand, but I want half the business.”

“So like people, particularly at Target, and I think it's because Target was mentioned on the show, and so people went to Target, and they just cleared the shelves, and so we struggled for a couple months just to keep up with it.”

“So we went on the show trying to get, we were pitching for 500,000 dollars for 10% of the business.”

“So Robert offered us a deal, but he cut our valuation in half. He said, love you guys. Love the product. The valuation is too aggressive. So I'll give you 200,000 for 20%.”

“Within a couple, so we aired on Shark Tank in November of 2014, and within the following five or six months, we were able to get into, you know, three more regions of Whole Foods, and with those relationships opened up some opportunities to sell to other retai…”

“I had one friend whose brother had seen the show, and, He said, I don't care what anybody says. You're a complete badass, and I want you to run the company exactly the way you're running it, and here's a half a million dollars without any questions. So I took …”

“In the end, we spent, like, 20, 25,000 dollars on the negotiations, and I really wanted to make it happen, but I wanted a deal that basically let me still run the company the way I wanted to, and I couldn't get that deal, and I had to walk away.”

“He would have been clicking his heels.”

“Cause they film something like a 150 businesses and then they air like a hundred, right? So it was a 33% chance that we weren't even going to get on air.”

“In the first 13 months before Shark Tank, we did about 900,000 dollars in sales pretty organically. And then in the two months following Shark Tank, we did 1.2 million. It sold out of every single item of product that we had leading into holiday.”

“And then about 45 minutes after the airing, then the phone started blowing up as well, and the orders just started pouring in, and we did 10% of our lifetime sales volume in that week.”

“Yeah, we had 270,000 visitors at the same, at one time for about 12 minutes.”

“It was the final segment of the season finale. So yeah, we had a massive party at our office, huge sales on spikeball.com that weekend and in the weeks to follow. But the real lift was we started getting tons of inbound requests from retailers, primarily like …”

“And when we talked about sort of what direction it would be or what do we want to do, his main interest lied in licensing. So I think he said something along the lines of, you know, Chris, I've got friends at Marvel Comics. Let's maybe explore like a Spider-Ma…”

“Oh, our website crashed that night. I want to say we had, like, 40,000 hits to the website within just a couple of minutes.”

“On, like, TikTok and Instagram, on the reels, people keep cutting up my shark tank, and then putting, like, the story, like, in, like, in a reel. It's over, like, a hundred million views, like, way over a hundred.”

“By the way, Allison is heading back to Shark Tank once again for its new season, but this time she'll be a shark. She's one of just two former contestants to ever appear in that role. The first one was also a guest on this show, Jamie Siminoff of Ring”

“And so, he did come up to the 25%, and I'll be honest, we looked at each other, and we immediately said yes. Because we just knew he was the right partner for us to really take it to the next level.”

“I think when we went into Shark Tank, I think it was, we had done about a half a million dollars in revenue in the previous, I don't know, 12 to 18 months, something like that.”

“I think we initially went in there asking for 400,000 dollars in exchange for 10% of the business.”

“We did a million dollars the night the show aired.”

“I've been on shark tank almost 15 times and almost every year they do some follow-up and then CNBC picked up all the reruns and started airing them all the time.”

“When we originally started, you know, we did 16,000 in sales. Then the next year we did 33, and then the year after that we did a 120. And then we were lucky enough to be on a show called Shark Tank, which was really an amazing experience. And we did about 440…”

“Sometimes it's why Bomba Socks is the most successful product in Shark Tank history.”

“The way that I got onto Shark Tank was because they actually saw me on Donnie Deutsch. What was that called? The Big Idea. And they realized that I could take a pitch”

“So I'm listening to the story and seeing if it's a play for me. Will I add value? Can I either reduce costs or increase sales by what I'm doing? If not, my money is just as good as anybody else's money.”

“By the way, Kim may seem like the kind of founder who would have been perfect for Shark Tank, but she never made it on the show, even though she applied like four times.”