CurlMix (as seen on Shark Tank) - Kim & Tim
Today\u2019s guests are Kim and Tim Lewis, co-founders of CurlMix, a brand focused on clean beauty hair products for \u2014you guessed it\u2014curly hair. This is the second company that they\u2019ve started together, but they\u2019ll be the first to tell you that their first was a failure. Still, they grew from the experience and attribute the success of CurlMix to the lessons learned from that first failed business. As you\u2019ll learn in this episode, Kim and Tim are innovative, driven, and work exceptionally well together. We\u2019ve had a few founders on this show before who are married, and it\u2019s always immediately apparent why both the marriage and the company are successful. Kim and Tim perfectly complement each other\u2019s skillsets and have such infectious energy that it\u2019s a no-brainer why they were chosen to appear on not one, but two TV shows.
Listen in as we cover everything from how they funded their first company on Tim\u2019s winnings from Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, how they grew CurlMix\u2019s sales from $140k to $1M in only one year, and why it\u2019s so important for them to be the entrepreneurial role models they never had while growing up in Chicago\u2019s South Side.