When your candy tooth calls, would you ever predict it may very well be glad by a snickerdoodle-flavored chickpea unfold? Makenzie Marzluff did and had a singular concept in thoughts when she appeared on “Shark Tank” Season 9, Episode 4 in 2017 (per IMDb). On the time of her on-screen look, the headstrong entrepreneur had created many various flavors of the dessert-based dip together with brownie batter and vanilla bean, and marketed them as 100% nut and gluten-free. Well+Good additionally claims these distinctive flavors had been made utilizing high quality substances and solely sweetened with raw turbinado sugar or coconut sugar.
In keeping with Shark Tank Recap, Marzluff appeared on the ABC present asking for $600,000 for 12% of her enterprise. Throughout her pitch to the traders, the Gazette Review claims the devoted enterprise proprietor made $1 million within the first full yr of the Delighted By enterprise earlier than her debut on “Shark Tank.” Marzluff wanted monetary help in product distribution and worker funding so she did not need to do all of the work getting her product to retail shops alone. Whereas a few of the judges believed Marzluff’s valuation was too excessive, ultimately she needed to determine between a $600,000 mortgage from Kevin O’Leary or a $600,000 take care of Mark Cuban with the caveat of getting to fork over 25% fairness (by way of Shark Tank Recap). She determined to take the take care of Cuban.
