The BIGGEST Deal In Dragons' Den HISTORY! | Dragons’ Den

The biggest investment secured in Dragons' Den is Ben Hardyment's 'Zapper' - a unique trade-in platform that provides cash valuations on your unwanted items.

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[infernalphoenix]

The entire point of early investors getting a bigger chunk at a lesser price, is because they take a risk higher than later investors.
Later investors come in when the business starts showing potential, and take a lower risk.

This isn't a new concept at all, the entire series A, B, c funding works exactly like this.
The fact that the Dragons "felt" insulted at being asked to offer more for less, is hilarious

[reganbrannigan]

You don’t invest in a business at previous valuations. It’s like being angry that you can’t invest in Bitcoin for the price it was before it exploded

[Alephu]

They're pissed off about a 10-20x increase in price of a rapidly growing business, yet I'm expected to pay £400k for a house that cost £4k new and has accumulated 50 years of wear and tear.

[Billy_B]

Deborah to Elon Musk “why should I pay $1000 per Tesla share when people bought 6 years ago at $100?”

[knuckalar]

The dragons always have a meltdown when there’s other investors involved

[neiltavares]

Man that interpreter showed some pazzaz when translating 30%

[geoffm]

I couldn’t understand the hostility of two of the dragons. They felt insulted? Really? I don’t think so! It’s business! He gave an excellent pitch and stood his ground! Good for him. The Dragons are there to give applicants a rough time, but I can’t abide their faux outrage and wounded feelings nonsense!

[theepicone]

The deal fell through after the show, Zapper is still in buisness though and has a revenue of $2 million annually. Go them

[shadaba.qureshi]

Debra's logic is crazy (5:10), the value of share depends upon company's balance-sheet as the time goes by... 1 unit share price could be either 1 $ or 100 $ at the start, during raising the same value could be 100 $ or 1 $... the hidden logic is Risk...initial raising is always lucrative for the investor...

[ASXInvestor]

The biggest deal and the biggest title in Dragons Den channel history got us all clicking immediately

[jakecooper]

I'm surprised there was no discussion about how it can scale. The technology is the easy part, the expensive part is the manual labour required to process the incoming stock and outgoing orders. That massive pile on the table only generates 20 pounds of net profit.. That is a lot of work for 20 quid! Maybe they did discuss it and that didn't make the edit

[Jordothecat]

I often think dragons get offended for no reason but those shareholders didn’t put in 50k years ago, it was recent. So I get the irritation at being asked to do 250k for 7.5%

[beastritualist]

Didn't even notice all the Dragon's autobiographies he bought with him until just now

[trunderwood]

This aired in 2012 and Ben left Zapper three years later. It's not clear what happened to Zapper as a company (it appears to still be trading), but it is clear that Theo et al - who know retail and "I see the future" - didn't even ask about the effect of digital media / streaming on a business like this. Genius investment.

[mrh]

8:10 Deborah is so annoyed by the entrepreneur, she subtly gives him the middle finger.

[Jamie_Winsh]

I'm surprised Theo gave away so much of his children's inheritance

[kmlau]

For those that are confused about why the dragons are baffled about the big jump in the valuation between the rounds of funding, in general startups, we often see a 2-3X increase in valuations between early rounds of funding. What this guy is asking for is a 20X increase. That's absolutely bonkers, especially without any good real financials to back it.

[ESTWOOD]

The example books are written by the dragons, nice touch.

[michaelolson]

Apparently at 30% the valuation of the company fell to £833, 333.33p just by changing the percentage of the valuation a option that was available to all dragons that went out.

[LiberateYou]

First time I've seen someone deaf in the den! Its inspiring to see people with disabilities being successful!