Dragons Try Breaking for a Cuppa Tea | Dragons’ Den

Sweet Counter's Chris Mayo demonstrates her revolutionary learning resources for primary school students but rapidly loses the panel of Dragons. Chris Mayo seeks an investment of £100,000 in return for a 10% equity stake in Sweet Counter.
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[@remchaill9898]

The trouble with a lot of schoolteachers is that they're used to being surrounded by children, and get too used to the idea that they're the smartest person in the room and everyone else should just do whatever they say. It's not really in their nature to have to justify themselves to anyone.

[@00Kuja00]

Good catch. As a part time substitute teacher I have noticed that too.

[@Time_Line_Archive_Project]

I also notice how they develop a 'way of speaking' - it comes across as patronising to adults but authoritative to children - the problem is when you're pitching to adults but talking down to them like children!

[@marks6663]

and they tend to be pie in the sky liberals who think the world needs saving and they want your money to enact their glorious plans.

[@00Kuja00]

@@marks6663 Not here in Sweden when you start talking to most of them privatly. ^^

[@psoteriou3884]

Yes, I recall there have been several teachers pitch in the den and they were all very much like her.

[@theovolz3073]

This is the kind of pitch where the Den needs a trapdoor and each Dragon has a big lever by their chair to activate it.

[@alanparana6899]

Don’t give Janine that kinda power

[@omgitsskie3165]

When o read this comment I was like Yhh. And it’s exactly as expected

[@karenoconnor4180]

😂😂😂

[@simpingseal6552]

Yeah and for especially teachers

[@TheBengalDragon]

But did she say why she should not be fired without using the letter E as in the Simpsons and Mr. Burns?

[@Highran56]

I watched this pitch over ten years ago and didn't know what she was offering. I'm re-watching this today and still don't know what she's offering.

[@leeshanpillay1253]

She's offering 8+2= 10 and 7+3=10 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@3umphbywill313]

@Highran56...Right?!!... Totally lost as to what she's pitching!

[@Ben-jamin84]

I swear it starts by saying it's a sweet business but she's taking about math

[@itellyouforfree7238]

@@leeshanpillay1253 but with "copywritten" yellow stickers!!

[@mattlukco3717]

Going to keep this in mind. About to watch it precisely

[@leaf3827]

Double laminated?........ Take my money.

[@becxification]

😂😂😂💰💵💸💶💴💷

[@tyranniccubone8259]

that's a £1,000,000 pound value I hear.

[@thegovernmenthatesyou7831]

Haaaahahahahahaha 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@ianbaird1774]

Hold on to your britches……. Triple laminated!

[@kimdaisies2660]

🤣

[@tomaszignielnicki4320]

I’m Polish . Very sadly I thought my English is so poor I couldn’t understand what she was offering but it turned out some of you either ! What a relief!

[@123TauruZ321]

She was just talking a lot of nonsense.

[@jrbs]

🤣😳😁

[@mirjamvm1641]

My english is very good, but even me still do not know what her company is about😅

[@stevenbaggley1257]

You're not alone! I have no idea what her company is selling? Something to do with numbers & children, but the rest is hazy? 🤨

[@ixopo6715]

I am English, but the lady might well have been speaking Polish. 😊😊

[@JamesFodor]

Ah, a good old fashioned train wreck pitch. This is what I subscribe for.

[@robertj5208]

I know, right!!

[@Big_Old_Bondy]

I do love to see a good investment, but I'm all about those lead balloon pitches

[@enigmag9538]

Your comment killed me , i am definitely dead. 🤣

[@JP_C3]

I just don’t know why seeing people pitch crap is so addictive every lunchtime

[@christinebartmann7252]

Hi yes agree can get boring

[@wanderingalba5077]

It also works here 👍 Morning tea in New Zealand 😁☕

[@marks6663]

schadenfreude. We like to see people fail. Even more so people pitching crap.

[@jeetparapsyn3957]

Exactly mate, doing that right now in fact

[@danielw9949]

I now can’t watch this at any other time

[@RCLeahcar]

I love how the narrator talks over the teacher as she's rambling 😂

[@DavidMcCoul]

That was a nice touch 🤣

[@anish6688]

It’s like breaking the fourth wall 😂

[@bounmiibeagle7550]

As a teacher myself, I can see she's fallen into the trap of many teachers-TTT (TEACHER TALKING TIME) Parent teacher meetings must be pretty one sided...

[@Jamie_Winsh]

I'm not even sure on what her business is. Her rambling just made me zone out

[@siddhanthravichandran3245]

From what I can gather, she is offering pictorial representations of math questions, like instead of "what are 3 oranges plus 2 oranges" , u would have pictures of 3 and 2 oranges. This is useful, because ur child won't have to think as much, in a class whose sole purpose is to develop thinking skills.

[@Jamie_Winsh]

@@siddhanthravichandran3245 I understood the pictorial representations concept it was more the buisness model side. How she makes money out of it and how it was a proper business with some structure

[@siddhanthravichandran3245]

@@Jamie_Winsh I don't think they let her get that far in the pitch

[@Jamie_Winsh]

@@siddhanthravichandran3245 true lol

[@charlisays]

Talks about sweets, names the company after sweets, there are no sweets? Lol

[@shy_sorai_vlogs]

Imagine having zero self awareness until you're in front of 5 strangers who destroy you on television.

[@tarkatheotter6977]

Every teacher I’ve met makes these things themselves. A million pound business? Mad,

[@Kiara_Wrestler]

Exactly

[@jietroraximoff2805]

2:35 Deb-"I was hoping to hear some numbers" Chris-"I can give you lots of numbers." Anyone else get the sense that she would've resumed her excessively long pitch and possibly divert into a maths lesson if Deborah hadn't cut her off?😆😄

[@yoloswaggins2161]

My teachers just drew numbers on the blackboard with a piece of chalk.

[@missscousemouth82]

I honestly think children would love to see chalk boards in the classroom again. Remember being asked to go and write something on the chalk board or wipe the board clean....exciting times. Plus you got to talk when the teachers turned thier backs.

[@yoloswaggins2161]

@@missscousemouth82 wait they don't have chalkboards no more?

[@00Kuja00]

@@yoloswaggins2161 Whiteboards here in Sweden.

[@emmas5000]

James Caan is so polite. Despite his frustration he keeps cool. I love him

[@nightowl7459]

Emma S: That's because he doesn't have a over inflated sense of self importance like the other four.

[@human1414]

@@nightowl7459 He's a snake. He f*cked over a pitcher he invested in on DD.

[@Myplop]

He’s a smart and polite person

[@BenjaminGoose]

@@Myplop Yeah when he's not causing an entrepreneur a nervous breakdown when his "investment" turned out to be a loan where he got to keep the equity after he was repaid. And also that time he tried to buy a baby from a poor family for a few hundred quid.

[@Mellbergfan]

I work in education and we laminate our own materials usually. Not sure if I've missed something here but it seems she has just laminated a load of paper and called it a business!

[@retroworld1971]

are u forgetting the patents on 8+2!!!

[@sovietonion72]

As a parent I taught my kids to do this at home, like most parents would, don't need fancy charts.

[@HIOP0]

And your point is...? :)

[@kimdaisies2660]

@@retroworld1971 🤣🤣

[@matthewmbonu3159]

Be careful mate she might sue you 🤣🤣

[@leeshanpillay1253]

@6:52 when Peter thought he was being nice then proceeds to say "this is bloody worthless at the moment" 😂🤣🤣🤣

[@methuseling]

8 plus 2 is ten .she replies : no ,it more than that .so does that mean it’s eleven..? I am confused.

[@CrewofBigW]

No. It’s more than that

[@CabbageYe]

@@CrewofBigW twelve?

[@MCFC111]

Lol!!

[@MCFC111]

She means that her system is better to learn the addition, I guess, she have not used abaco or diferent ways of solving math in the World.

[@missscousemouth82]

This is a teacher who goes into school to work on her display boards on the weekend.

[@Nick_J_]

This is one of the goofiest pitches top to bottom. I NEED THE UNEDITED VERSION. ALL 30+ MINUTES

[@cassia3363]

Wish they would givr us the full footage of the classic pitches - this onr, Rory and his seaweed, the slimy water coolsr guys...

[@bendaniel5901]

It was probably an hour or more.

[@caitlinlindsay8418]

This is probably the most diabolical pitch I’ve ever seen and that’s saying a lot

[@ivinaneumann4756]

Someone needs to teach this teacher this to do a business pitch in front of entrepreneurs, not give another lecture as if she’s in a classroom.

[@Tomtoms-tomtoms]

This just reminds me of why I hated school.. 😄

[@philstrachan]

She's one of those teachers who is a control freak. Shame the dragons don't have a trapdoor.

[@techwiz81]

What does this woman think she invented? When I was a kid, there was **DOUBLE LAMINATED** crap like that all over the classroom walls

[@jrbs]

God, you can tell she's a teacher 🙄 8:19 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@candybetta4061]

''Nobody can do it better than me!'' The way she said that...

[@callmedavid9696]

"I can give you lots of numbers" lmao

[@jaylondon283]

Just not any that are important… but that’s maths in general I suppose oioi😂

[@Argumemnon]

"Candy is children's currency. They understand if another child has more candy than they have." You could say the same thing about Lego.

[@00Kuja00]

And ipads...

[@thefonzkiss]

Or apples. Or anything.

[@quarryspanish]

"8+2 is ten!" "but its more than that" excuse me...what??😂

[@charlisays]

People who say "do you have children?" Like an intelligent non parent couldn't possibly understand!

[@Iburn247]

Peter's face when she said "I need to buy in help" 🤣🤣🤣

[@naturescandy3986]

I hope my family or friends would not hesitate to tell me when I have a crap idea!

[@admavery]

Duncan cracking up after she forgot Peters question is quality!

[@samgrimshaw388]

This is the best pitch I've ever seen.

[@parris50]

In that case, you'll like this one... kzbin.info/www/bejne/nIOxhWqkr6mrhbc

[@tareksibaii]

Love the way those dragons laugh like super villains

[@MetaTechGrapplingAcademy]

Dragons: mild chuckle Narrator: The den is descending into chaos

[@bero3937]

what is the product i still dont understand

[@somerandomguywastaken]

"Do you have kids?" 🤣🤣

[@ghamandlupin]

Numbers (that she has intellectual rights too somehow) typed out on Microsoft Word and clipart, printed off and laminated, then sold apparently

[@bero3937]

@@ghamandlupin Looooooool

[@OMAR291185]

Annoying woman, crap useless concept.

[@LBPreviews]

@@ghamandlupin What on earth LMAO

[@albertodemo658]

Tbf if you lose kind James you know you've lost everyone else

[@jujubeans6921]

I'm 34 and my teachers used laminated letters numbers and shapes when I was in school

[@hughm1383]

Then you should be able to do the maths on your end and just tell us the year in which you studied it. Why would we care how old you are now?

[@jujubeans6921]

@@hughm1383 you obviously can't do the math on your end, I'll help 34-2020= 1986 so around 1991 the teachers used laminated letters, numbers and shapes. Can you follow that? Or should I make it more simple for you?

[@hughm1383]

@@jujubeans6921 congratulations on finishing primary school, big boy.

[@jujubeans6921]

@@hughm1383 do you still need help counting? Or should I make it more simple for you big boy? You don't seem to understand questions to well or should I simplify that for you as well?

[@Noelhall88]

I still don't completely understand what she was offering?

[@dazsin]

A yellow number 8 and number 2

[@grimhasty3597]

Basically the same teaching materials you'd find in children's classrooms but for wild prices. E.g. 24 bats with "they" and "my" on them for almost £100!

[@siddhanthravichandran3245]

From what I can gather, she is offering pictorial representations of math questions, like instead of "what are 3 oranges plus 2 oranges" , u would have pictures of 3 and 2 oranges. This is useful, because ur child won't have to think as much, in a class whose sole purpose is to develop thinking skills.

[@nicbrown7751]

So, it’s just laminated flash cards then. How are these learning aids any different from resources parents and teachers have already been using already for decades?.

[@terencepetermccoombe7413]

Chris certainly likes the sound of her own voice!

[@3umphbywill313]

I am completely confused! What,...is...she... pitching!?

[@itellyouforfree7238]

yellow stickers

[@havva_p]

The captions say PIZZA JONES

[@C0D97]

Stop

[@davidscottblacksmith]

YOU REMIND US EVERY DAY. YOU DULLARD.

[@Fuckethead]

lol it’s a bot guys

[@havva_p]

@@Fuckethead Hi dad

[@Chi_Vid3]

@@havva_p PMSL

[@TwistedNaut]

Every teacher is the same in the Den where they think they're gonna ace it because they're use to presenting to a group of people and end up waffling on and on like its a class.

[@TheManInBlueFlames]

Because they're so passionate and so well knowledgeable, they assume the business side doesn't matter. This is what the Dragons need to grasp, this is the value the Dragons bring.

[@MrGlostuber]

@@TheManInBlueFlames But many people that come into the Den are passionate, still got to have a strong business mind though, these are investors not customers.

[@TheManInBlueFlames]

You don't know what they've been through. They could have sat there for 10 hours like the three guys in the last video did before they entered the den and got on air.

[@williamking1905]

You can tell the difference between primary and secondary though, primary teachers are hyper and are used to talking to children whereas secondary teachers are used to young adults and having a 2 way conversation....everytime a dragon spoke this woman was not listening but simply waiting for her turn to speak

[@TheManInBlueFlames]

Well yeah, when teaching kids, you do need bags of energy.

[@jillianthomas8261]

Look at the faces on them dragons like thunder ⚡

[@eliseanna6561]

Enjoy your lunch everyone! I'm surprised hoe nice the dragons were to her lol.

[@axeman14]

8:20 Duncan: “They use a number 2 and a number 8 and add them together to make 10!” Woman: “It’s more than that.” Duncan: “So you’re saying they make 11???”

[@LitteJeanie]

Honestly, I was amazed she had turned over any profit. What is it with these people and their basic products in the UK that still generate sales of a couple of hundred thousand? I honestly think if I tried to do this exact same thing in Australia people would thumb their nose and say they could do it themselves. In fact, most primary school teachers here make similar things as a normal part of their effort to teach the curriculum. I think I should quit my business here and start selling in the UK.

[@GarethRules]

I'm just as amazed and I live in the UK. Every teacher i've ever had at all ages also made their own resources.

[@McRazzler]

What an absolute shambles lol

[@DrTune]

One of the most entertaining ones for a while

[@jakecooper5855]

I thought it was a good idea. Counting to 10 is important and not currently taught in schools

[@farhanhasan2926]

LOL at Peter - “I can be harsh… this is bloody worthless at the moment”

[@andersonaldo1340]

Her business is laminated print outs? 😂😂 Every teacher has that shjt

[@dan003]

A woman who loves the sound of her own voice!

[@stebam8072]

Imagine she was your mother in law.

[@JangoSkett]

Aw bless her man.

[@travisscavoni369]

I love how at 3:30 she says her turnover dipped, but then at 4:45 she says her turnover has increased each year

[@Superrayjunw]

They had a good laugh at grandma’s expense

[@michaelwallden7261]

best case ever in Dragons den))))))))))))))))))

[@liddybug8311]

I love how Peter acts all nice just working up to telling her that her product is worthless 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@pnklady3788]

Incorporated October 2017 and dissolved January 2019. That went well.

[@MrWindermere123]

Ahhh, I was a teacher, so I know that the danger for teachers is talking AT people instead of talking to or with them. This behaviour starts in the early days of teacher training when a nervous beginner tries to dominate a class by force of will: looking stern, giving firm instructions, bulldozing objections and following an inflexible lesson plan. Some teachers later become softly-spoken, patient, sympathetic, even funny but others stay in the robotic talk-but-not-listen mode which I saw here.

[@CabbageYe]

07:17 There's too much chaos!!

[@thefonzkiss]

Imagine how long this unedited pitch was before Meaden stepped in to stop it.

[@scroggin92]

You know where it's going when you see the exasperated dragons just seconds into the pitch!

[@OpinionatedMonk]

She's clearly a primary school teacher from the 60's when 'teaching' was shutting your students down, rather than engaging in useful dialogue. A concept she'll never understand.

[@thefonzkiss]

Triggered.

[@shanem4545]

I told myself I'll watch one more video 10 videos ago

[@notanicebear]

This is actually not uncommon attitude from a "teacher". If you ever wonder where our education system is heading.

[@TehDawg]

I fear the day they run out of videos to upload. I’ll have nothing to watch while eating.

[@mathiuseden9605]

"Designed" you mean Took from Google and laminated 🙄🤨

[@itellyouforfree7238]

are you kidding? they are "copywritten" yellow stickers!!

[@BenjaminGoose]

@@itellyouforfree7238 copyrighted*

[@itellyouforfree7238]

@@BenjaminGoose did you watch the video? it was a joke, because they said it

[@lisamartin5901]

All these things could be printed off a computer if they wanted them. 🤷🏼‍♀️🤔

[@ellekay4758]

Why didn’t Deb ask to see the paperwork!!!

[@obgprasa]

James is the consummate gentleman as always

[@SilentForrest]

I still don't know what her product was. A poster?

[@amirrezai2118]

I'm out too,somewhere around jungle.

[@zabranthenecromancer2210]

Deborah is the best at interrupting and redirecting naive, well-meaning folks like this, lol-- epic!

[@annabellesinger3717]

Clash of 2 worlds teaching vs business!

[@FortoFight]

That would imply that she has something to teach.

[@annabellesinger3717]

@@FortoFight meanie.

[@royboy7256]

I am exhausted from watching her pitch 😬

[@LBPreviews]

This video felt infinitely longer than 10 minutes. This woman is a time sorcerer.

[@redblade8160]

The trouble with teachers is that they 'are' patronising with children, they seem to forget that they were once children themselves. Children in their natural state want to make friends with everyone and when a teacher talks down to them by being patronising (even nasty at times), then children can feel this and you alienate them from you which then hinders their learning and causes other problems...

[@Sigrt]

Every time a teacher is talking, they talk to the dragon's as if they are children in their class.

[@DevinsDen]

2 of my ex's were teachers they've done the same thing to me during convos before. They don't know how to turn it off when not working.

[@redblade8160]

Back to the drawing board!

[@derryair9419]

What is she selling? Can someone please explain what the product is??? I saw sweets, math and the Hungry Hungry Caterpillar.

[@YTGhostCensorshipCanSuckMe]

Honestly if i was a dragon, the moment that dropkick placed 2 steps beyond the top of the stairs, I'd be 'out'.

[@Psycho250785]

- This is the future of our children! And that is the problem...

[@reasonablyserious]

Look at his grin after he said that, totally not being ironic lol

[@DavidMcCoul]

I didn't realize how big of a mess pitches could become on here. I've never seen the Dragons so eager to interrupt.

[@Cactus88]

This scrunt definitely feels like one of them teachers you'd probably carve into your desk wearing a noose oh my days

[@selfridgesforever4399]

She must have been very upset when the cricut was available to buy, most teachers have them and use it to make resources.

[@falldog9]

Television gold. 😂

[@alexajones2331]

A good old balls up, nothing better 🤩

[@Englishham]

Duncan looked unimpressed before she finished coming up stairs

[@lukeylove8570]

Love funny ones

[@butchershoppequartet8690]

Peter was very gracious there.

[@Kiara_Wrestler]

I still don't understand what she was selling??

[@noooname2568]

Imagine how her class feel when this is just a small segment of her rambling

[@mrsurprise2294]

I feel they would have to tell her class has finished now otherwise she will still be going on and on without no jaw aching

[@JSSTyger]

Class bell rings and everyone leaves...."and children I'd like you to turn to page 5"

[@TheManInBlueFlames]

They would feel as if they had learnt MANY things.

[@zappatron_tom5653]

6 minutes in and don’t no if they buy the numbers on the board or an app or or website lol

[@Nixter1974007]

What's a yellow 8 added to a yellow 2????

[@Cypher791]

I think im a bit rusty on my number bonds actually >_>

[@amunek]

Well I'm Lost??????????????????????????????