How Do You Roll (HDYR) was a fast-casual approach sushi restaurant business founded by Yuen and Peter Yung. They pitched their franchise on Shark Tank and inked a deal with Kevin O’Leary. As of 2024, How Do You Roll is worth $0. HDYR was acquired in 2015 but are no longer in business as they went bankrupt. About the Founders Yuen and Peter Yung are brothers who grew up in Chinatown, Manhattan. Peter started working in his parents restaurant from the age of eight. Here he mastered the art of cooking Japanese cuisine. Yuen studied finance and earned a BBA…
Author: Matt Cabral
Successful entrepreneurs are a rare breed of individuals who refuse to give up. On his first time on Shark Tank, Les Cookson went home empty-handed after pitching his barf bag bib idea. But on his second attempt, he pitched LUCIDArt’s Lucy Drawing Tool and got a deal with Daymond John. As of 2024, Lucy Drawing Tool is worth an estimated $4 million. About the Founder Les Cookson is a serial inventor from Lincoln, California. Not much is known about his formal education, but the entrepreneur has been turning his ideas into reality for almost two decades. The first company he…
Gift cards are an easy birthday present to buy but they often go unused. Kwame Kuadey created the Gift Card Rescue marketplace so people could sell them instead of throwing them away. Kuadey appeared on season one of Shark Tank and made a deal with Robert Herjavec and Kevin O’Leary. The company later shut down and is worth $0 as of 2023. About the Founder Originally from Ghana, Kwame Kuadey immigrated to Washington, DC, to expand his horizons. He studied economics at Middlebury College and earned an MBA from Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. He spent seven years working in…
Toygaroo was a subscription service that lets parents rent toys for their kids. Dubbed “The Netflix of Toys,” it was a promising company pitched on Shark Tank by founder Nikki Pope. She bagged a deal with Mark Cuban and Kevin O’Leary, which is arguably one of the biggest failures in Shark Tank history. Toygaroo went bankrupt and is worth $0 as of 2023. About the Founder Nikki Pope is a businesswoman from Los Angeles, California, who was raised in a massive family. She has 11 siblings and 13 nephews and nieces. As for her education, she has a psychology degree…