Two entrepreneurs who appeared on 'Shark Tank' scored $100,000, but a piece of advice from one of the Sharks ended up being much more important
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- The entrepreneurs behind Kitchen Safe, a time-lock container, scored a $100,000 deal on a 2014 episode of "Shark Tank."
- But the more important takeaway for them was advice they received from guest Shark Nick Woodman, the CEO of GoPro.
- Woodman told them to change the name of their company so people wouldn't associate it strictly with kitchen-related items.
In 2014, entrepreneurs David Krippendorf and Ryan Tseng scored a $100,000 deal on an episode of "Shark Tank" after delivering one of the most enthusiastic pitches in show history.
They had successfully sold two investors on their product Kitchen Safe, a plastic storage container with a time-lock lid that prevents users from accessing junk food or anything else they want to cut back on.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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