Is this the Outdoor Gear You've Been Waiting For? | Elevator Pitch S11 EP8

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Hear from Brian Horowitz, founder of Creative Wagons, a veteran-owned small business that makes creative, functional outdoor gear.

It's the season 11 finale of Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch, and contestants are fired up for their final chance at winning life-changing money from our board of investors.

Watch as hopeful entrepreneurs step into our elevator and have just 60 seconds to pitch their big ideas. If our board of investors likes what they hear, the elevator doors open, and negotiations begin. But if the investors don't like what they hear, the elevator heads back to the ground floor, game over. "I'm not in the business of wasting time," says investor Rogers Healy, owner and CEO of Morrison Seger Venture Capital Partners.
Transcript
00:00Welcome to the elevator.
00:03Hi, my name is Brian Horowitz. I'm a vet. I'm a serial entrepreneur and small business owner.
00:08I've started and sold several successful businesses with my career.
00:11Creative Wagon makes outdoor lifestyle product specialized for your family and your pet.
00:16I'm not here for your money. I'm here for your expertise, partnership, and help grow this company.
00:22So my question to you is, who's ready to roll?
00:28Very impressive. Serial entrepreneurs, a lot of businesses started.
00:35Seemed like it was a great idea, but he doesn't want our money.
00:40Yeah, that absolutely rubs me the wrong way.
00:43I mean, who goes into a pitch and goes, I don't want your money.
00:46I mean, listen, if you want to hire a consultant, that's a different thing.
00:50Obviously, the guy knows what he's doing. If he's sold companies, he's built companies.
00:53Maybe he's not strapped for cash, but maybe he's stuck at that like level five.
00:57And maybe one of us can help him get to a level 10.
00:59Well, maybe he should have offered some percentage for our mentorship.
01:03It was open ended. I just want mentorship on a show like this.
01:07You come in with some sort of ask. Yeah, it's kind of loaded.
01:10Maybe that was part of his pitch to get the doors to open.
01:12Yeah. You know, listen, there is intriguing things about this.
01:14And he kind of had me at the scale of the business, but I'm not in the market for wasting my time.
01:19All right. Were you guys ready to vote? Let's vote.
01:28Attention, Brian. Your pitch has been.
01:38Denied. I'm very bummed.
01:41I was really hoping to get a deal. I think they definitely missed out.
01:45They missed out on a creative company with entrepreneur that has a hard drive and accessible company with my team.
01:53And you know what? I'm a phone call away if they change their mind.

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