Since launching in 2011, Willie Blount has taken BearTek Gloves to Kickstarter, TechBreakfast and big shows for motorcycle and snow gear. But there was one place he still hadn’t been.
“For years people always said, ‘This is a cool project. You should go on Shark Tank,'” said the Columbia resident and former Marine.
In September, Blount and current BearTek CEO Tarik Rodgers got their chance. The rest of the country will get to see what happened during this week’s episode of the ABC show. It airs Friday at 9 p.m.
Blount will be the second Columbia resident on the show in as many months. In January, Conscious Venture Labs-based Hungry Harvest made a deal for $100,000 with Shark Tank nice guy Robert Herjavec.
Read more at Technical.ly Baltimore
from http://baltimoretech.org/news/catch-beartek-gloves-on-abcs-shark-tank-this-week/
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