They Made A Crypto Shark Tank. It’s Hilariously Bad.

You don’t get money, you get mentorship LOL

Isaiah McCall
Yard Couch
Published in
4 min readMay 17, 2024

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CoinMarketCap and Hello Labs are trying to captivate the Web3 scene with “Killer Whales,” their version of a crypto Shark Tank TV show.

It’s the funniest, most cringe shit I’ve seen since I saw a botched proposal at someone else’s wedding at six years old.

Oh my God — that was bad. This show is worse.

First, you don’t get funding for your project — you get mentorship!

Second, the mentorship isn’t from seasoned financial vets — most of it is from YouTubers with big crypto followings and a few venture capitalists like Anthony Scaramucci who missed on Tesla and Uber.

“This has got to be a parody,” — Brandon Ewing, streamer

If this show were a parody, it would be amazing.

But because it isn’t, it makes Angel Investing — angel mentorship? — in Web3 look like a job at Enron.

Here are the many lowlights:

Crypto Shark Tank Pitch #1: Ticketmaster But Crypto

Shark Tank famously has to dumb down its talks, shorten the length of the pitches, and make it accessible, but…

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Isaiah McCall
Yard Couch

Journalist for 99Bitcoins and former USA Today, also Ultramarathoner | On Substack: https://isaiahmccall.substack.com/ mccallisaiah@gmail.com