After Brutal вЂShark Tank’ Rejection, Tech CEO Reinvents Her Dating Company
‘all told me to go die in a hole and I did the opposite was by me’
Ms. Cheek. (Photo: Katya Nicholas)
The time that is last chatted to Lori Cheek, she along with her dating app—then called Cheek’d—had just been coldly refused on nationwide tv by Kevin O’Leary, Mark Cuban, Barbara Corcoran, Robert Herjavec and Lori Greiner. Now, very nearly a year that is full her admittedly cringeworthy Shark Tank episode aired, this new York-based CEO has totally reinvented her business, and it is prepared to share it once again because of the globe.
“They all told me personally to get perish in a gap,” Ms. Cheek told the Observer, in mention of the Sharks, “and we did the exact opposite.”
Okay—the terms “die in an opening” didn’t precisely escape some of the Sharks’ lips, but there’s no denying they had problems with Ms. Cheek’s initial item. Just how it worked, users could pass flirty ice-breaker cards to cute strangers they spotted within the world that is real then, those strangers could log onto Cheek’d and see the dating profile of the individual who’d simply handed them a card.
The Sharks had some biting, though perhaps reasonable criticisms—namely, that in the event that you could muster the courage up to pass somebody a Cheek’d card, couldn’t you simply let them have your contact number? Read more →