Henry Snow Of PeeSport: 5 Important Business Lessons I Learned While Being On Shark Tank

Authority Magazine: Henry Snow Of PeeSport: 5 Important Business Lessons I Learned While Being On Shark Tank -- Listen Share I want everything around me to be beautiful. Including my pee bottle. We don’t have to settle for ugly products just because the problem is unglamorous. People deserve dignity. I want everything around me to be beautiful. Including my pee bottle. We don’t have to settle for ugly products just because the problem is unglamorous.

People deserve dignity. As a part of our series about the ‘5 Important Business Lessons I Learned While Being On Shark Tank’ I had the pleasure of interviewing Henry Snow. About Henry Snow: Founder and CEO, PeeSport. Henry is a product obsessed founder who loves taking awkward everyday problems and turning them into well designed solutions people actually want to use. After the camper van trip that inspired PeeSport, he spent months working with engineers and manufacturers to redesign the entire category around comfort, durability, and dignity.

PeeSport is now used by thousands of travelers, campers, truck drivers, festival goers, parents, and anyone who has ever been stuck needing a bathroom with no bathroom nearby. Thank you so much for doing this with us! Our readers would love to “get to know you” a bit more. Can you tell us a bit of the backstory about how you grew up? I was always a creative kid. I got my first computer at nine years old and immediately started messing around on the internet, building websites, experimenting, figuring out how things worked online. I didn’t know it at the time but that was my first taste of entrepreneurship.

I’ve been building things online ever since. My parents immigrated from Ukraine and I think they instilled this mindset in me early on: don’t believe everything around you, think for yourself. That shaped how I see the world and probably explains why I ended up on such an unconventional path. Can you share with us the story of the “aha moment” that gave you the idea to start your company? I was doing a camper van trip for a few months. Just me, my dog Bella, and the open road in the mountains. It was amazing. But one night I had to pee and did what most people would do in that situation — I peed in the sink. Don’t recommend it.

It started to smell. So I graduated to peeing in plastic water bottles. Also don’t recommend that. It’s messy, awkward, and you end up with bottles of pee rolling around your van. So, I looked at what was on the market. Every pee bottle out there looked like it came from a hospital supply closet. Cheap plastic, ugly, embarrassing. I thought, why hasn’t anyone made this product actually good? What if someone designed a pee bottle the way Apple designs a phone? Premium materials, collapsible, leak proof, something you’re not ashamed to own. That didn’t exist.

So I made it. Can you share the most interesting story that happened to you since you began leading your company? Walking onto the Shark Tank set and pitching a pee bottle to a panel of Sharks on national television while pretending to drive a Jeep and having to go pee is hard to top. Michael Strahan was the guest shark that episode. The whole room was laughing and I was having the time of my life. I’ve always loved performing. Being on camera, on stage, telling a story to a room full of people. That moment felt like everything clicking into place. But honestly the thing that surprises me most is the customer messages.

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