"I've Never Seen Or Heard Of Anything Like This Before" | SEASON 18 | Dragons' Den

Entrepreneurs Tom Wilday and James Coulthurst are pitching their plantable children's books, which they hope will grow into an investment from The Dragons. They're seeking £20,000 in exchange for 10% of their business.Willsow encourages children to learn about gardening and growing their own vegetables from the book they plant.
Season 18, Episode 8.
An international sensation, Dragon's Den features entrepreneurs pitching for investment in the Den from our Dragons, five venture capitalists willing to invest their own money in exchange for equity.
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[@DianneClewes]

I bought one of their books "The Carrot That Was Too Big For His Bed." for my goddaughter's son. He loved the story & couldn't believe he could carrots from a book. He later got a crop of 14 carrots.

[@kiriakoz]

Aww bless. That is cool to be honest. You get a story and some carrots. Bloody bargain.

[@PrelovedEmo]

Guys: We have a sustainable product that will get kids outside and teaches them about the environment. Touker: How about making some cheap plastic crap to go with it!

[@withgoddess1119]

I knoooow...🤮

[@RPI79]

Typical boomer thinking.

[@originalunoriginal4055]

​@@RPI79what's a boomer?

[@snoozywanderer]

ikr lmao

[@amandarosetarot7308]

I know! Also, everything ive supposedly learned about sustainability is practically irrelevant buying from amazon .....😅😢

[@76-UVB]

6:40 guy reveals his family owns a printing business, Peter immediately begins calculating ways to include the printing business in to the deal

[@deepzd6839]

I mean they already print the books, right? Or do you mean Peter wanted some percentage of that?

[@originalunoriginal4055]

​@@deepzd6839no, they are just trying to show, how greedy Peter is! 😬

[@nayakkharish]

😂

[@shaherwazir4341]

Exactly. He always does that.

[@BenjaminGoose]

I'm so grateful to the editor. Without the music cues, I wouldn't know how I'm supposed to feel every ten seconds.

[@Pickyjonez]

You'll love the bit at 10:50 then

[@oldtimepowerliftingym]

😂😂😂

[@PriestessHephzibah]

Dripping of sarcasm I see

[@Nick-7432]

​@@Pickyjonez😂😂😂

[@ThePeacePlant]

@@PriestessHephzibah I don't think that's sarcasm

[@faridajafery8108]

Touka: i can offer you an allottment plot in my office and get the carrots outsourced in China

[@GLaraV]

💀💀💀💀

[@GLaraV]

😂😂😂😂

[@sadikmeah4057]

Sara showing the old dragons how to seal a deal

[@StarMonkies]

Great product and I think its perfect for Sara's brand. Touca talking about making merch of the characters of the books makes me wonder how he ever became successful. For one showing a complete misunderstanding of the concept of sustainability and secondly why wouldn't anyone buy merch for unestablished characters I could see it developing in to range of sustainable crafting products, science products/kits aimed at kids to teach them about the environment and sustainability

[@folk-comrade]

Touker has never been an ideas guy. He made his fortune by importing fast fashion from Chinese and Southeastern European sweatshops.

[@eddiediesel9035]

Fantastic. I'm so glad Sara won the deal.

[@Rusmiester]

The planting and being outside is the play, it supposed to be about being outdoors and doing something together not collecting plastic or squidgy toys!!! Let’s take something wholesome and not digital and plastic and make it exactly that!!

[@vianneyluyima5094]

Jenny is out planting those.

[@drumcdoo9050]

Amazing teaching product to get kids enthused about plants and the way they grow for life. Lovely likeable guys too. Can see this product developing into something major globally...

[@talhacreates4944]

Why did these guys not do the most obvious thing which was to run TikTok and Facebook ads! It’s such an easy product to market - literally Timelapse the thing growing

[@kobusvanstaden3747]

What a brilliant idea! Simple, like all the great ideas

[@willowwren7752]

So happy the best dragon won!

[@sandeshvantveen]

I really like Sara Davies. She invests in businesses she’s passionate about it and never seems to needlessly put down anyone else.

[@edwoodsnowden]

Sara wanted that one and she got it!

[@originalunoriginal4055]

Keep Calm Carrot On! 😄

[@josieann5031]

The majority of entrepreneurs on this show are so unlikeable I want them fail. These guys seem so nice and sincere. I wish them the best.

[@kieranl7975]

I can tell you they are the nicest guys ever

[@ThePeacePlant]

You don't seem very nice

[@dianp4824]

😂😂😂

[@originalunoriginal4055]

Thanks for letting everyone know what's inside of you: 🖤🖤🗑️🗑️🖤🖤

[@todd-makes-videos]

You can't have a monthly thing. Growing season isn't all year, unless you have a greenhouse.

[@eletakelley7188]

Or a window

[@redarmyreactions]

Nice guys, full of warmth was that one…

[@Gonken88]

Surprised nobody called out the easiness for anyone to copy the concept.

[@anubusx]

They got to the root of the business.

[@dancutd]

Calm down with the puns Evan

[@originalunoriginal4055]

Keep Calm Carrot On! 😅

[@mdx7460]

Just gone on to their website for a nose. They really need to get rid of all the spiders running across the screen when you scroll 😳 I have a big fear of them and yes they are not real, but it’s what they look like that makes me uncomfortable. I had to come off the page.

[@aoeulhs]

They have snowflakes on the screen now -- maybe the spiders were for Halloween?

[@mdx7460]

@@aoeulhs ahh maybe, I thought it maybe had something to do with the nature side of their business.

[@dancutd]

Needs Rory’s Seaweed version

[@withgoddess1119]

😂

[@SuperJutah]

Hahahahahahahahahahaahahhaahahaha!!!!

[@jonathan0834]

Sara the Best Dragons to get Cards an Books out on the Market

[@Bobby.Kristensen]

You know when a dragon says "I think that I am worth this high of a percentage because I will add so much value too it."? I would translate that into their percentage being more valuable and hence they should get less of it, because if that's not true then they won't in fact add that much value, but they are lying and are just greedy. Which ofc is one of the reasons they are rich. And if they get offended won't budge then I guess they really didn't think they would add that much value. But I am guessing it has more to do with ego than anything else.

[@listeningtoeminemsnewalbum]

This product has amazon written all over it, i can believe they hadn't sold it on amazon already. That's like having your own money printing machine.

[@vl1180]

Amazon. Fees and Amazon copying products is why small businesses don’t like using them

[@joerussell9574]

Yes really great idea! I hope they had/have success with this. If anyone out in internet land knows fill us in!

[@tonytoonstours]

I stopped at 11.24 after Peter made his offer. Why do I think he and Deborah will team up. I hope choose Sara

[@green_firefly]

Sara is my fav dragon. She is so refreshing.

[@Yessirdo]

This could be a top seller on Amazon

[@christinebrassey7877]

I agree. It's also something that could be introduced to Infant and Junior school children. The sense of achievement for a child is also part of the learning process. 😊😊😊

[@zeeplanter63]

Thats fantastic idea books+ seeds never in my wildest dreams good for them and nice deal..😊

[@BenjaminGoose]

Could you take a moment to add some punctuation to your message before you post it?

[@HomeCookingSpain]

​@@BenjaminGoose😂😂😂

[@marcel9568]

Can you just shut up and stop complaining about the music and the punctuation? Get out of your bed, make a walk.

[@originalunoriginal4055]

Yhh... It definitely: ✅ Unique invention/idea

[@Mallorcaexplorer2308]

Fantastic idea.😊

[@ConnorCruickshank-z9t]

Nice editing with the music

[@mycroftsanchez901]

Ten quid for a tiny book and a few seeds? No wonder turnover is so small, needs to be £3.99 if they want sales to grow.

[@mrbroadwaydork]

that gives them no margin, so no.

[@marcelnz]

should've offered all three for 7% each ... *next time*

[@miexul3305]

What a great idea. One of the only shark tank inventions i want. My son would love this.

[@Tom_Berry]

Dragons den mate

[@HomeCookingSpain]

Shark Tank??? 😂😂😂

[@paulstannard7985]

It is not Shark Tank!

[@kcc-karenschroniccorner9432]

With this one, the puns wrote themselves lol

[@Mickenos85]

Packing the seeds costs too.

[@jay-dubb.dubb.68]

I'm excited, I'm gonna ring ☎️ my Mum and tell'er!! 😍🎉

[@psychopassive]

8:02 what was touker babbling about here 😅

[@David_Mc_Our_God_Reigns]

Sara is unbelievable

[@michellesayers5346]

Id pay a tenner

[@Roswell33]

This is great, but it looks like they have to cut off the back cover instead of an inside page? It would annoy me no end if it had half a cover afterwards. Then the book is ruined..

[@cranegantry868]

So, they are selling very expensive seeds in a book.

[@Vollification]

No, it's a book with seeds in it...

[@JSSTyger]

Sarah beat Peter Jones and Deborah, the two titans of Dragon's Den.

[@Kasperbjerby]

The idea is actually not that bad

[@gardensoflondonmwgs7836]

Well done Sarah 🎉

[@jonathan0834]

That wasn’t Sarah , seat was taken by Sara while ago

[@TimeWarp2000]

I too tried to hide my bald for a bit in my early twenties.

[@lutalice]

Poor guy, they really did him dirty with all those high angle shots in the beginning, like they made a point of not letting him get away with it! Lol. He still looks good though, no need to have started buzzing it all off just yet

[@ConnorCruickshank-z9t]

I love this

[@aiyanyaqoob2203]

I wouldve taken Peter's offer

[@wowwwwwwwieee]

These 2 guys can close any deal with any lady

[@jaylondon283]

Why not call it “plantA book”

[@marcelmoreau2733]

Missed pun should hav3 said harvested instead of turned over.

[@simonjohnson9055]

Why does Evan have to call him Pizza at every opportunity?

[@univedmgratz]

Why Debrah's mic is 3x the others?

[@HomeCookingSpain]

Why does Tuka or however you spell it remind me of Delboy? 😂😂😂

[@simonjohnson9055]

I love Sara ❤

[@roberths7282]

Does Tej actually ever invest in anything?

[@AbhishekSanyalTGV]

You've just started watching, haven't you? Tej has invested in many businesses and had to leave Dragon's Den because he needed time to focus on them. He was the second richest dragon, second highest investor in terms of value just in 4 years (money invested through Dragon's Den - first rank is of Peter, but he has been on the show for two decades) and was one of the mostly consistently liked Dragons on the show.

[@peterreber7671]

I don’t understand this "double they wanted to give away". Surely everyone comes in with an offer that is half or less than what they are prepared to give.

[@bobmiller7502]

read me seed me,,got it all there, this has legs treated right this could boom

[@univedmgratz]

Fix Debrah's mic please, too high volume

[@marygaudet2-7]

What's with the glass divider in the elevator? They literally are side by side the rest of the time 🤦‍♀️ smh Clown world take 2

[@ANGELSURS]

Lol😂

[@BenjaminGoose]

This happened during the pandemic. Why do such measures scare you?

[@davidmills6203]

@@BenjaminGoose because they are ridiculous

[@jasonbored8319]

I wonder where Jenny is...

[@Seita833]

Out

[@insulani]

Outgrown the Den

[@Fush1234]

Great

[@univedmgratz]

I have to decrease my volume by 60% just before Deborah speaks, otherwise my ears hurt, normalize their mics output please. Deborah's mic outputting 3x higher volume than the others.

[@adityawardana1867]

Who is jenny?

[@MADVILLIAN777]

She's the tasty one

[@anubusx]

She was a previous dragon who barely invested.

[@adityawardana1867]

​@@anubusxthanks

[@jaylondon283]

It’s an old boring joke that commenters haven’t dropped yet.

[@ArtemKonstantinovich]

@@jaylondon283 and never will

[@craigpardy6204]

Tom willthey and james won'tthey

[@Bill-tm6yt]

Toukas missed the point that the characters were the plants being grown, not some cheap plastic facsimile.

[@davidmcloughlin6547]

Tom Wilday Won't They

[@truezulu]

What a bad idea. Truely! I'd have laughed loudly I think...

[@k.ch.2611]

They are very handsome guys..they could be a couple...

[@jord5131]

Jenny’s mum gives birth “I’m out”

[@FactsB4Feelings]

1:22 Tej is SICK of the "plandemic" excuses xD

[@killiannolan]

Plandemic?

[@Anonymous-li6py]

Both guys are very handsome ❤

[@monghasan3356]

Idk why I just keep hearing tom and jerry

[@deerheart87]

Jenny doesn't like the outdoors so she's out

[@rioangel8397]

Nice when you can afford to "Buy an allotment" on a whim.

[@saamhebden]

allotments are rented for a small fee, not purchased

[@rioangel8397]

@@saamhebden Oops.

[@wulver6666]

3 x 7 percent or 2 for 20 either way good

[@rboeyrt4054]

Last time I was this early, Jenny was out.

[@lushhclub819]

Normally the Dragons will not invest in a branch company and expect the parent company to be included........twisted bias at work....its about the way you look more often than not

[@barneyclifton6402]

Why are people so against technology now? Technology doesn't just mean sitting about on a computer playing games. It's annoying that people speak about technology, like it's a bad thing!

[@algalgod159]

They should name their company DoubleCulture. I can take 1% for this idea.

[@soihollywood850]

They have no enthusiasm. I’m out.

[@Marais-cu3vo]

Touker spoke a lot of rubbish during that episode.

[@OriginalYS]

Touker is looking/sounding pretty unhealthy

[@BobBroon-k2t]

That Evan Davies is annoying. Explaining what's going on.... We're watching it.. we don't need to hear from you.. div

[@luisdasilva4117]

Sara well done, I think you would be a nice person to work with

[@sggr7708]

HOW SAD AND UNETHICAL IS THIS ! TO PLANT A BOOK ! TO THROW AWAY A BOOK SHAME ON YOU !

[@asdasd-ni8eg]

Kinda like the newspaper