Shark Tank survivors Kevin and Brian Fleming believe that they’ve stumbled upon the next indispensable invention.
Kevin and Brian Fleming owe their newest careers to Kevin’s dog, Beckett, a Tasmanian devil mix. That’s only a slight exaggeration. The Fleming brothers’ brush with fame — an appearance on ABC’s unscripted entrepreneurial show Shark Tank with their invention BagBowl — came about because Beckett couldn’t drink water from a Ziploc bag.
“I was just trying to think of a way for my dog to drink water at the dog park,” Kevin explains during an interview with The Pitch at a Crossroads coffee shop. This is the latest leg of a mini, local publicity tour since the show’s October 5 airing. To quench Beckett’s thirst, Kevin made a ring out of gaffer tape and popsicle sticks. BagBowl was born.
A few curious, latte-sipping customers sneak a peek as Kevin demonstrates BagBowl. He places a pink, flexible, plastic cylinder on a table, drops a Ziploc bag filled with uncooked beans in the middle, and rolls the top of the bag over the edges of the ring to create a bowl.
The Flemings believe that their idea — giving structure to flimsy bags — can take off like other almost unfathomably simple ideas, like Post-it Notes.
