6 College Students Pitch Us Their Startups | MFM Shark Tank

**Tommy Potter** (0:00)
Yeah, so just to preface here, I'm Tommy. Tommy Potter, student at Umich. I'm really excited to be bringing you start-ups today. To illustrate the community, we're Power Hour, which is the CIA for college entrepreneurship. And what I mean by that is that you don't know who we are. You don't know where we meet. We are this underground society of hand-picked, killer founders.

**Shaan Puri** (0:21)
Wow, hold on, hold on. If you're building the impossible, we got Tommy Potter like Harry Potter, and then there's no meeting place, there's no information, there's no way in and there's no way out of this club.

**Tommy Potter** (0:34)
It's a tap on the shoulder, just like the CIA. We let you know individually where we're going to be meeting.

**Shaan Puri** (0:39)
Dude, Sam, they're speaking your language already. This is some real skull and bone shit.

**Tommy Potter** (0:52)
I want to preface, this is live audience. If Sam and Sean, you don't know, I'll pan the room. We got like 65 people here. Ready for you, Mesh. That's here, I'm sure.

**Shaan Puri** (1:01)
Make some noise.

**Tommy Potter** (1:03)
The ecosystem is out here today. I know the same is going on down at UIUC. They got a massive room. How many of you got in that room there, Austin? Yeah, I'll pan the camera too real quick.

**Shaan Puri** (1:14)
Oh, wow.

**Tommy Potter** (1:17)
But yeah, we've, they don't want all points that Tommy said. I basically hope, get all the amazing founders as well as entrepreneurs, content creators, everybody that's doing awesome stuff in the same room down here at UIUC. So we're super pumped on both sides.

**Sam Parr** (1:31)
And UIUC, is that Illinois Carbondale?

**Tommy Potter** (1:38)
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the big guy. So that's where we are.

**Shaan Puri** (1:43)
So we got Tommy, we got Austin. The club is called Happy Hour. Is that what you said?

**Tommy Potter** (1:48)
No, we're Power Hour.

**Shaan Puri** (1:50)
Oh, Power Hour.

**SPEAKER_5** (1:51)
Power Hour, gotcha.

**Tommy Potter** (1:52)
An hour full of power.

**Shaan Puri** (1:54)
And it's all student run. There's no faculty, nobody who's making this happen. Is this like, has it been around for 10 years, or did you just invent this on Thursday? What's going on?

**Tommy Potter** (2:03)
Do you remember Bobby Firehousel, which was on this podcast about two years ago?

**Shaan Puri** (2:08)
I may never forget Bobby.

**Sam Parr** (2:10)
So Bobby started all of this?

**Tommy Potter** (2:12)
Bobby started this. Bobby started this and it's kind of been planting around and UIUC as their community. We're very deep in our partnership there as well.

**Sam Parr** (2:21)
So this is fantastic. So to give the listener background, two years ago, we had this guy named Bobby. Bobby, I think was in Michigan. Bobby gathered this group of maybe 15 entrepreneurs and four of them pitched us and they were awesome. Apparently Bobby has Fight Club this thing and gone out from university to university to convince you guys to join on. This sounds awesome. So today, I think six of you, so three each are going to pitch us, is that right?

**Tommy Potter** (2:48)
Totally correct. Yeah, there's a lot of school pride on the line in terms of which school is going to come out on top in this competition. So we're laying it all on the line for you. We have tons of creators in the audience. It was tough to get it down to three startups, but we're giving you our best. So can't wait. We're ready to roll.

**Shaan Puri** (3:05)
So this is College Shark Tank style. Two schools pitching from both. We're going to have a winner. We're going to maybe have a few other awards that we come up with. I invested in one of these last time, Sam, out of Michigan.

**Austin Majors** (3:19)
So how's it going?

**Shaan Puri** (3:21)
Company already failed. So we're not going to hold that against y'all. You win some, you lose some, and we lost that one pretty hard, pretty quick. But that's all right.

**Sam Parr** (3:29)
All right. But let's see if you guys could beat Michigan. So the first one that we're going to hear from is Meet Your Class. And I think, is University of Michigan, are you guys doing three in a row? And then it's going to be, we're going to go back and forth. All right. All right.

**Shaan Puri** (3:42)
Sam, I think we just need to step aside and let this kid emcee this. He's got the natural rigs of a host. See, I'm using college words.

**Sam Parr** (3:50)