The Mindset of Most Infulential Elites
Wicked Good Cupcakes pitched cupcakes in mason jars on Shark Tank in 2013 and walked out with one of the show’s best-known royalty deals. In 2021 it was sold to Hickory Farms. Plenty of sites put a net worth on the company, but the sale price was never published. This post sticks to what the…
Bombas is usually called the most successful company ever to come out of Shark Tank. That claim is probably fair, but the dollar figures behind it are less solid than most articles make them sound. This post lays out what Bombas and its leaders have said publicly, what outside sites have estimated, and where one…
Cousins Maine Lobster started as a single food truck in Los Angeles and turned into a franchise with more than 65 locations. If you’re thinking about buying in, the numbers that matter are in the Franchise Disclosure Document (FDD), not in a blog post. This guide pulls together what the 2026 FDD reports, and points…
Byron Young spent about fifteen years building a bean bag company before he walked into the Shark Tank. Lori Greiner offered him $200,000 for 58% of it, he said yes, and the company has since racked up $195 million in lifetime sales, according to the show’s own list. Most “CordaRoy’s net worth” articles stop there….
Two guys from Maine got homesick for lobster in Los Angeles, bought a food truck, and went on Shark Tank two months later with $150,000 in sales and a $1.1 million price tag on their company. Barbara Corcoran gave them $55,000 for 15%. Thirteen years on, the company says it has rung up more than…
Everyone who wears reading glasses has done it. You take them off, set them down somewhere, and spend the next ten minutes hunting for them while they sit on your head. Rick Hopper got tired of it, bent a paperclip, stuck a magnet on it, and eventually walked into the Shark Tank with a pitch…
Al “Bubba” Baker spent 13 seasons in the NFL, then spent about twenty years working out how to take the bones out of a cooked rack of baby back ribs without wrecking it. In December 2013 he took the result onto Shark Tank and walked out with $300,000 from Daymond John. A few years later…
Your phone slips out of the cup holder, hits the seat and drops into the gap beside the center console, and you reach for it while you’re doing 40. Marc Newburger did exactly that on Sunset Boulevard, drifted toward the sidewalk, and nearly hit a pedestrian and a telephone pole. He and his friend Jeffrey…
Dallas has plenty going for it. There’s a thriving food scene, exciting entertainment, professional sports, and no shortage of neighborhoods to explore. Add in the career opportunities and Texas sunshine, and it’s easy to understand why someone might be tempted to pack their bags and start fresh. However, moving somewhere new involves more than finding…
Everyone has burned their fingers pulling a bowl out of the microwave, and most of us have grabbed a dish towel or a wad of paper towels to avoid doing it again. Cyndi Lee decided to fix it with a flat silicone mat, and in October 2016 she took it on Shark Tank. Only one…