So a few months back, one of our team (Ian, nickname “Robocop”) went on the programme with a student from South Bank uni (James). As well as being one of ours, Ian’s the uni’s head of Intellectual Property and brings businesses that start there into the real world.

They arrived at 8am, weren’t told when they were going on and were kept away from any of the main panel all day (production staff spent all day trying to scare them silly). They were scrapping in there with them for 2 hours but the edited footage is only around 15mins.

To cut a long story short, they were told it was the best pitch that has ever been done on the programme, that 3 of their answers were the best they’d ever heard and they were offered investment by almost all the panel.

And guess what? They turned it down. Not too much of a disappointment as between us we know the whole panel anyway so apparently they’re doing a deal privately.

James Barnham & Ian Sillett Take On The Dragons
(Episode 1 - about 1/3rd of the way through, bath-stopping invention)

They want Jon and I to go on now as well. Should we do it? I’d fucking rip their throats out….:)