Newton inventor claims ‘Shark Tank’ is all a lie
I&#x27;d like you to give more of your credentials.<p>I&#x27;ve been in contact with several of the of the entrepreneurs featured there, one of whom is a YC-backed entrepreneur (MTailor), and also for what it&#x27;s worth I have another contact (via email) that I don&#x27;t want to name.<p>I haven&#x27;t been on the show or anything like that.  Why would you say that it is a &quot;lie&quot;?<p>A lot of deals fall through.  What specifically would you consider a &quot;lie&quot;?<p>Examples of a lie would be if there were never any money that ever changed hands, etc.<p>Other than that, it seems to be genuine<p>&gt;but no investor can adequately research a business in the 15 minutes it takes to shoot each pitch.<p>You claim to have worked on shark tank but somewhere I heard that the pitches are much longer (up to an hour+) and get edited down, whereas you claim that it is 15 minutes, about the running time.  So who&#x27;s right?<p>For this reason I would like you to name what crosses the lie threshold for you, and give just a bit more of your credentials.<p>For the rest of us reading this I will state that the biggest &quot;lie&quot; isn&#x27;t a lie at all: getting exposure on shark tank is a huuuuuuge amount of value for any company.  But this is not something that any entrepreneur mentions (or it gets cut).  I&#x27;ve never heard anyone say &quot;Do you realize that when this airs, based on my talks with other founders we will get about five hundred thousand hits to our web site?  So far we have a 7% closing rate on every single visitor who has ever come to our site.&quot; or anything like that...  it&#x27;s the elephant in the room that nobody really mentions, except a few times the sharks refer to it obliquely as &#x27;gold-diggers&#x27; etc.  but it&#x27;s not mentioned in a positive light, for example when negotiating about valuations.  I haven&#x27;t seen anything else that seems to be a lie to me!  (And this includes personal contact as mentioned at the top.)