The lesson here is that we should all take holidays a hell of a lot more often.
One man’s trip to Bali spawned a multi-million dollar business idea, and now he’s pretty much rolling around in giant piles of money.
Jake McKeon took his business idea for eco-friendly coconut bowls on Shark Tank, where he scored a $300,000 investment from business investor Andrew Banks and Boost Juice founder Janine Allis.
But Jake’s business was already profitable before his TV appearance, and now it’s set to get even bigger.
Since starting the business in January 2016, Jake has sold over 100,000 units, and the company grew by more than 500 percent last year alone, raking in $1.2 million in revenue.
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Can they go in the washing up and the dishwasher? If so then it’s a good thing.
Sounds more like the Balinese guy had a good idea and Jake's pulled a Thomas Edison to me.
Nah you see them sold as souvenirs around the place in a few different countries. Not just from one guy. Jake’s just smart enough to see the potential in the market for this particular product. He never claimed to have invented the concept.
That's sort of my point. The article makes it sound like he had some genius simple idea on holiday, not that he saw something fairly common for the area and went "I could do that on the cheap at home!"
I'm not knocking him for seeing a good idea and getting on it, more that it's being sold as "his clever idea" when it's just not hey.