Posted on 12/30/2015 7:40:30 PM PST by Baynative
A farmer goes on 'Shark Tank' and gets his life's work ripped to shreds. Now watch him turn the tables...
(Excerpt) Read more at facebook.com ...
Johnny’s got an absolutely great idea and great heart - and he deserves to get paid for it.
I agree with the sharks. $12/T-P is probably still a really fair price - if he saves 23,000 gallons alone per tree, he’ll be saving farmers Almond and Walnut farmers in California alone a ton of money per tree.
But when this great guy is taken national and his company gears up with advertising, production, shipping and sales teams he is likely to be overwhelmed and maybe not so happy with the outcome. Corporate managers taking over his life might crush it.
Good post! That farmer represents EVERYTHING that is good about America.
“Johnny, tell your dad he’s a great man”
“He died”
“He’s still a great man”.
“Yes, thanks to the new catatonic Freeze-T-Pee”
I have worked with the man who became his Shark Tank partner, John Paul DeJoria. I knew when I saw the beginning of the video that he would step up. He is an environmentalist and has a great heart.
Very cool. Here in Cali where we let trillions of gallons of water flow into the ocean supposedly to save some stupid minnow, this guy could make a mint.
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What a sweet man, an old school really nice unselfish man. Honors his father, wow.
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news? this was on Shark Tank over two years ago!
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/tree-pee-shark-tank-success-grew-hard-times/story?id=23415393
And you get so irate, you report it to the moderator?
It's a good story - about what's good with America- uplifting, heartwarming/
Scrooge has nothing on you...
I wonder if these things work on grape vines...expecially for insulation purposes.
“Tree-T-Pee”? At first I thought this might be something for the pet dog to use in the backyard (tree TO pee).
So I looked it up and found this review...
“The Inventor of Tree-T-Pee is Johnny Georges from Arcadia, Florida who built this protective barrier made out of 100% recycled plastic. You simply slide the cone shaped T-Pee around the base of the tree which creates a mini greenhouse environment and protects smaller tree’s from the elements as well. The irrigation system is converted down to individual drip emitters for each Tree-T-Pee which greatly reduces the amount of water required when watering.
Not only will this reduce the amount of water required per tree, it also prevents unwanted grass and weeds nearby from getting watered resulting in less maintenance throughout the growing season. The Tree T Pee has also proven to be an excellent frost protection devise for smaller trees which that alone would pay for themselves in a single night under extreme frost conditions.
By the looks of Johnny Georges Videos, He’s already keeping very busy selling thousands of Tree-T-Pees mostly to the Commercial Citrus Tree Growers. I would imagine just about every commercial tree grower out there will instantly see the benefits of how much money the Tree-T-Pee will save them and most likely will become an Industry Standard especially in water conservative drought stricken areas.
Now if Johnny Georges ever gets caught up selling thousands of Tree-T-Pee’s to all the Citrus Tree Growers in very large quantities, I would imagine with a few minor changes and maybe a few different sizes these Tree-T-Pees could also be used for other types of species which would greatly expand his customer base overnight.
Tree T Pee before Shark Tank Update:
It doesn’t take watching too many videos to realize who Tree-T-Pees biggest customers are and why they are buying this product in very large quantities resulting in thousands of units sold per order. If Johnny Georges is selling this many mainly on the East Coast primarily to Citrus Growers, just imagine how big this business could grow targeting other Fruit Tree Growers on the West Coast and around the world for that matter.
Now taking into consideration the emitters now being used and replacing with drip style emitter’s so they’re not spraying directly on the trunks of some species of trees which would result in root rot, the same mini greenhouse effect would still take place and help several other varieties of trees grow faster using less water.
Surprisingly the Tree-T-Pee is only available in one size with a 15 unit minimum per order. Ouch, that might cost a few interested customers from ordering a few Tree-T-Pees after the Shark Tank Show. Unless you happen to have a small Orchard in your backyard, this might not be worth what it costs for such a large minimum quantity. And for that reason “I’m Out”!
I realize the benefits mainly dealing with customer’s who own hundreds of acres of Citrus Trees and buy thousands of Tree-T-Pees at a time, but I also see other large markets that are not being addressed as far as I can tell. Hard telling how much money and brand new customers this will cost Tree-T-Pee in just a single night when millions of people will be interested in this really cool invention, but unwilling to buy 15 at a time for over $100.00 per order.
Who knows, maybe Johnny Georges will read this article before this Friday Night and consider putting together even a 3 or 5 unit “Shark Tank Special” of the Tree-T-Pee for Homeowners, Landscaper’s and even Shark Tank Fans to try out this product first hand.
There’s no doubt about it, this product has lots of potential that could grow into a multi-million dollar empire in record time if Johnny Georges can keep up with all the future demand.”
http://sharktanksuccess.blogspot.com/2013/10/tree-t-pee.html
Later
What the heal is meant by “ripped to shreads” What I saw was a good conversation about proper business practices, which in the end lead to his getting what he needed.
That’s what you get when you use an excerpt, I guess.
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