r/sharktank

You can submit complaints to ABC here (Click on "Submit Programming Feedback" and choose Shark Tank: https://support.abc.com/hc/en-us?return_to=%2Fhc%2Frequests

I highly recommend that we all submit requests and boycott ABC until he is either removed or halts his data center. I want to continue living in Utah. But he may force me out when the lake dries.

Considering Mark Cuban’s unparalleled ability to just make an offer and land deals, regardless of competing offers (and many times without even a counter offer from the prospective entrepreneur), I think Mark should be considered more of an Orca than a Shark.

Orcas are becoming somewhat infamous, especially off the coast of South Africa, for killing Great White Sharks, eating their livers, and letting the rest of the carcasses fall to the bottom of the ocean. From watching pretty much every episode of this show, it seems to me that Mark Cuban is the equivalent of an Orca Pod arriving at a feeding location for Great Whites. It’s no longer a Shark Tank, it’s an Orca Tank (which for the record, is the only place an orca has ever been recorded to have killed a human) with sharks in it.

In other words I guess I’m proposing that Mark Cuban be labeled “The Orca” of the Shark Tank, because, in terms of how the show operates, that’s exactly who/what he is.

I'm interested in seeing how the show is made, and a realistic look at how pitches actually go down in the show. Are there clips available anywhere that shows a business pitch in full (like a full 30 minutes of convo rather than an edited down 8 minutes, and without all the dramatic orchestral stabs and other sound effects stuff they do)?

It's ridiculous!!

And painting products.

What other products are beatin to death on ST?

Maybe I'm being harsh but I always watch old reruns and whenever I see a company using the "as seen on shark tank" ad you know they haven't taken off since then

I've seen this difference a lot, and I'm really curious why. Is it because Indian sharks are very conservative about their investments and wish to buy only small slices of the company? Or is there any law or business practice in India that prevents dilution in the future?

Is there a way to compare the value of deals presented by sharks to a business owner when not all deals are straight equity deals? I'm curious if an equity deal and royalty deal can be boiled down to something formulaic to compare them side by side. Also, do any business owners ever walk out to the tank and say, "Hey Sharks! I'm seeking $100,000 in exchange for giving you a $1 royalty for every item I sell?"

Mark Cuban sticking his nose into everyone’s deals. As soon as another shark makes an offer he does the “OOOOHHHH”. Then he’ll tell the entrepreneur “you can make a counter offer” like they don’t already know that. The worst part is with all of these deals is that he has no intentions of even making an offer. He just feels like he has to stick his nose in every deal and it absolutely makes me cringe. I was just watching a few episodes and every one of them he does this! You guys have anything that grinds your gears???