Vulture writer Megh Wright was watching a replay of “Shark Tank” on CNBC on June 21 when she caught a haunting moment of omen during one of the releases.
The first season of “Shark Tank” aired in 2009, and the premise of the reality show is that entrepreneurs hope to propose items and try to convince one or more of the five business titans, or “Sharks,” to invest.
One of the contestants for the first season was a woman named Irina Blok, who arrived in 2009 to present the Sharks with “a collection of fashionable surgical masks designed for people with an edgy sense of humor who want to express themselves.”
An idea that, if it had been proposed just before March 2020, would have been a great success.
Blok says she “believes[es] she has created the next big trend, “but at the time, each investor scoffed at her idea and closed the tone.
Thinking about this season 1 woman, Shark Tank ran again. I saw tonight who threw funny face masks and proceeded to be knocked down by everyone pic.twitter.com/nFjLSSCS6p
– Megh Wright (@megh_wright) July 21, 2020
In the episode, after Blok explains that he had over 700,000 hits on his site a week after launch, Kevin O’Leary dismisses the idea that the general public is interested in this product.
“Is it because the swine flu was all over the news for two weeks?” he asks. “Now we don’t see it anymore, it’s an epidemic that came and went, you need a new epidemic to get that kind of hit again. “
Be patient, O’Leary, just wait 11 years.
“It is a novel article, not a serious article,” says Kevin Harrington. “I just don’t see the market for that.”
Blok’s reaction is my reaction right now seeing this in 2020 with an order for five face masks to be delivered to my department later today.
The COVID-19 outbreak has fueled the facial mask market, for both hospitals and civilians. Arizton Advisory and Intelligence anticipates that the face mask market “would achieve absolute growth of around 90%, contributing more than $ 2.7 billion of incremental revenue between 2019 and 2025.”
Sorry sharks.
As for Blok, she is fine. While it doesn’t sell face masks, it is the mastermind behind the Google Android robot logo.
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