Toilet Timer: What Happened After $200,000 Mark Cuban Shark Tank Deal
On Season 12 of
Adam Stephey and Katie Stephey of Katamco pitch their gag gift Toilet Timer. It’s a 5-minute sand timer designed for “poo-crastinators” who are accused of wasting too much time in the bathroom.
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They had the good fortune of pitching in front of billionaire
Mark Cuban who has seen success with his
. They accepted Cuban’s offer: $200,000 for 25 percent.
Since then the product has continually received rave reviews on Amazon, nearly 5,000 of them! And most of them by a big margin are five stars.
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Kirkwood High School graduate Adam Stephey used to clean park bathrooms for a summer job. Little did he know that, two decades down the line, his career would still be focused on toilets â in a whole different way.
Recently featured on ABCâs entrepreneurial reality show âShark Tank,â Stephey and his wife, Katie, are the creators of the Toilet Timer, a five-minute sand timer designed to keep people mindful of the time they spend in the restroom. Unlike a traditional hourglass sand timer, which takes several minutes to reset, the Toilet Timer completely resets after a 360-degree turn, saving precious moments for time-conscious commode users.
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2020 was a blur. So many important things happened in the Bloomington-Normal community, from COVID-19 to racial justice protests to the recession. Oh, and a presidential election.
Here is a look at the 10 most-read stories from 2020 on WGLT.org.
Danielle Kater, a 30-year-old from Bloomington, was the youngest person we lost to COVID this year. Her family bravely stepped forward to tell their story, starting with this heartbreaking interview with WGLT’s Dana Vollmer. Kater’s family later spoke at one of Gov. JB Pritzker’s daily briefings about the importance of taking COVID precautions seriously.
Stay-at-home orders due to COVID meant fewer people were driving. Less driving means fewer car crashes. Fewer car crashes means big savings for auto insurers. State Farm, Country Financial, and many other U.S. auto insurance companies sent some of that money back to customers. Bloomington-based State Farm, of course, is the largest auto insurer in the U.S.
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