PipeSnug founders Chris Burdett and Alex Lever recently took to the Dragon's Den.
Before their time on the show, the founders told Pro Builder Mag that they were “nervous but excited about facing the Dragons but we have prepared meticulously for the pitch and we are totally confident in our product and the time and money it saves.” Burdett and Lever explained that their sales were supposedly in the tens of thousands last year, but this still wasn’t enough to encourage the Dragons to hand over the money. However, the founders valued their business at £1.3 million on Dragon’s Den, to which Jones responded: “This is PipeSnug, not pipe mug”.
Alex Lever and Chris Burdett, who met at their children's Hertfordshire primary school, are the brains behind PipeSnug, a plastic disc plugs the gap around ...
Alex and Chris took their product, which is made in Britain, into the Den to take their firm to the next level. Chris Burdett and Alex Lever took their product PipeSnug into the Den on BBC One "One of the first things we looked at was protection and the patent - without it, our product could have been copied by a construction giant. Chris Burdett and Alex Lever took their product PipeSnug into the Den on BBC One "Chris and I met when my children started at a new school in Harpenden," Alex told the Herts Ad. "Chris - who has more than 30 years' experience in the construction trade - eventually told me about his idea, and I thought I could help to make it work."