
← The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan3. Sept. · 1 Std. 02 Min.
702: Mark Cuban Calls Us His BEST Shark Tank Deal Ever ($200M+)
Four childhood friends pooled $30,000 in a Chicago apartment to make wet
wipes for men. Everyone told them dudes would never use them. Thirteen
years later, Dude Wipes does close to $220 million in retail sales, runs
on a team of just over 20 people, and is Mark Cuban's best-ever Shark
Tank investment. They bootstrapped almost the entire way, none of them
had retail experience, and they built a nine-figure business in a
category the legacy players weren't even watching.
In this interview, Ryan Meegan breaks down how they carried a business
to $40 million with just three people, the guerrilla news-jacking
playbook that made Dude Wipes a worldwide Twitter trend for pennies, and
why brand marketing they never tried to measure was the smartest bet
they made.