Business Case Studies
Grace and Lace After Shark Tank: The Real Sales Numbers
Grace and Lace turned a single sock design into a company that’s since done tens of millions of dollars in…
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The Scrubbie on Shark Tank: No Deal, and What Happened Next
The Scrubbie is easy to confuse with Scrub Daddy — both are sponge products that came out of Shark Tank,…
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How Duolingo Turned a Free Language App Into a Public Company
Duolingo turned a free language-learning app, with no obvious path to charging most of its users anything at all, into…
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How GitHub Ran Bootstrapped for 4 Years Before Any Outside Funding
GitHub is now the default infrastructure an enormous share of the software world builds on — but for its first…
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How Patagonia’s Founder Structured the Company to Give Itself Away
In September 2022, Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard did something no major company founder had done at this scale before: he…
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How Mailchimp Grew to an $800M+ Business Before Selling for $12B, Never Raising VC
Mailchimp’s sale to Intuit in 2021 closed at $12 billion — one of the largest acquisitions of a bootstrapped software…
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Shark Tank’s Biggest Success Stories: 25 Companies That Exploded After the Show
The biggest Shark Tank success stories did not all come from deals. Bombas took Daymond John’s $200,000 investment and built…
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LuminAID After Shark Tank: How the Founders Turned Disaster Relief Into a Business
Two architecture students began making LuminAID after the 2010 Haiti earthquake exposed a problem that was easy to overlook: people…
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Tipsy Elves After Shark Tank: How the Founders Built the Brand After the Deal
Tipsy Elves entered Shark Tank in 2013 asking for $100,000 in exchange for 5% of the company. Robert Herjavec offered…
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Squatty Potty After Shark Tank: Where Is the Company Now?
The $350,000 deal Lori Greiner made with Squatty Potty on Shark Tank in 2014 was only the beginning. The toilet…