‘They all told us to get perish in a opening and I also did the alternative’
Ms. Cheek. (Picture: Katya Nicholas)
The final time we chatted to Lori Cheek, she along with her dating app — then called Cheek’d — had simply been coldly refused on nationwide tv by Kevin O’Leary, Mark Cuban, Barbara Corcoran, Robert Herjavec and Lori Greiner. Now, very nearly a complete 12 months since her admittedly cringeworthy Shark Tank episode aired, the brand new York-based CEO has totally reinvented her business, and it is willing to share it once again using the globe.
“They all told us to get perish in a gap,” Ms. Cheek told the Observer, in mention of the Sharks, “and we did the exact opposite.”
Okay — the words “die in a gap” didn’t precisely escape some of the Sharks’ lips, but there’s no denying they had problems with Ms.