Rabbi Moshe Weiss, a rabbi and entrepreneur from St. Paul, MN, will appear on Shark Tank, an ABC reality TV show, this Friday night. On the show, participants pitch their business ideas and investment opportunities to a team of entrepreneurs and business executives. Weiss pitched his “SoundBender” product, a device designed to amplify an iPad’s speaker without the use of batteries.
Weiss is offering a 26% stake in his company for $54,000 dollars. “You might be asking yourself, what’s a rabbi doing on Shark Tank? I love my iPad,” he told the investors on the show in a teaser released on YouTube. “I watch videos on it, I play music on it, I love it. But since the speaker is pointing away from me [...] you can’t grab that sound and bring it towards your ears.”
SoundBender raised over $8000 dollars in funding via online crowd-sourcing platform Kickstarter this summer, exceeding its fundraising goal of $4500.
You can watch the teaser for the rabbi’s appearance below:
1. lubavitcher wrote:
wow really cool !!!
2. kiddush hashem wrote:
wow this is amazing. spreading judaism in a new way
hope he got a deal!
3. Can you replay it wrote:
Can your website replay it for us to see ,
Thank you !
4. excher wrote:
i hope he gets investors… either way hes hard not to like.
5. twerpy wrote:
You can make your own with a Dixie cup.
6. Frank wrote:
Where can I buy it online now
7. RG wrote:
Saw it on shark tank..great idea..Hope he does very well….
8. St fan wrote:
He got the deal! In fact, he’s the only one the got a partner/investor on that episode!
9. SHABBOS ??? wrote:
Rabbi on reality show airing Friday night ???
Something dosn’t sound so kosher
(especially to sell something) Go ask a qualified Rov
if this should be allowed.
10. Cheskib wrote:
he doesnt control when the show airs. Non-issue
11. to 9 wrote:
tv showed aired on friday so what he not selling his product on shabbos by the way $ for him to make his
business more profitable gl to him now tat he made deal he’ll prob make millions
12. ch resident wrote:
friday night? shabbos? 0Y VEY ! sounds terrible!
13. Ari wrote:
#9 Here’s your chillul Hashem http://kstp.com/news/stories/S2917391.shtml?cat=1
14. Anonymous wrote:
Shabbos?
15. Cheskib wrote:
Go for it Rabbi !!!