Will Myburgh Designs Be Sitting Pretty With The Dragons? | Dragons' Den

Stephen Myburgh is next to enter The Den. He's seeking a £70,000 investment in exchange for 20% of his business, Myburgh Designs. He's pitching some gorgeous bespoke chairs designed in a unique and artistic way with a Moroccan theme. Will he be cushioned by one of the Dragons or will there be empty seats at the table of investment?
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[@nessthecat]

Imagine seeing the horror of Apartheid and thinking "This would make for a great pitch story for a furniture company one day...

[@onceuponagoat2316]

LOL Right!?!? He could've gotten the same story across with... I don't know... literally anything less morbid!?

[@colmwhateveryoulike3240]

He didn't. He saw it, and wanted to do something antithetical. So he did. Then he looked for a dragon and told of where his inspiration came from.

[@drscott7359]

Uhhhh yeah that was a stretch and a terrible one ! It’s all about optics and he looks a bit more like the oppressor then oppressed , boy did not value cop , cop did not value boy, something about a box and boom passion to make chairs! But I give props to his answer to Duncan …. Ummm yeah!

[@salemkid1979]

Let me takeyou back to my childhood. Picture the scene.... Its 1980's Scotland. I walk into the pub - a man is beating another man about the face with a chair for spilling his pint. It was at this moment I had the realization that inspired me to make post-it-notes. makes sense.

[@5eek3r0fknowl3dg3]

Yes I'll give u 50 k

[@alexbielovich]

Growing up in South Africa will mess you up. Spoken from experience.

[@jessebella9322]

😂🤣😂

[@amrvandenadel]

@@5eek3r0fknowl3dg3 LOL

[@joedwyer3297]

Total sense. A similar experience in a scottish pub led me to the creation of the fridge magnet

[@finleytweedale949]

In no way did a child getting mauled to death by a dog have anything to do with a fancy chair and the environment, I couldn't help but laugh ahahaha

[@kiwibird__]

When he mentioned apartheid south africa and his dad being a factory owner i got real fuxking nervous😂😂

[@ashamayes1946]

@MusicMaster1987 it was a police dog probably not a pit bull. You need to grow up if you think all pit bulls are bad😂

[@grtu4252]

@MusicMaster1987 grow up. You don't know what you're on about.

[@aaronlomax6102]

Yeah, I think he tried to tell it so concisely that the meaning was kind of lost, if the story had a decent meaning to begin with.

[@tiprat5051]

@@grtu4252 he was right about the pitbulls

[@Jimverse_]

Peter: "I'm boring." Duncan: Nods

[@sbaxter4207]

Dragons Den could buy 5 of these swing chairs and use them for the show. : )

[@juliet7703]

😅

[@afallenapple]

Here I am walking down the street when I see a dog chewing the arm off a postal worker! I think, my god he's getting blood all over the mail. It was then, that I discovered my life's dream of developing this new line of Mascara for men. Please invest in me.

[@jaylondon283]

😂😂😂

[@ellenkarlsson9490]

Peter: "Is your father's Apartheid factory included in the deal?"

[@colmwhateveryoulike3240]

Lmao

[@WinstonBuford]

if the chairs were not there, you would have no idea of what his business is. His lil "pitch" was just bollocks

[@ablewilling2778]

Terrible comment. Within a few seconds he literally said “we specialise in swinging chairs” …

[@WinstonBuford]

@@ablewilling2778 for what? 1 second? 6 minutes of talking and about 8 syllables of what his business does.

[@dingdingdingdiiiiing]

Peter's exit was one of the most respectful I've seen.

[@DigitalSamTV]

Yes lovely to see. Sometimes if he's in a mood he's the complete opposite !

[@johnsaif2867]

hasn’t

[@banquorebuechett9914]

Chairs don’t really need a deep story.

[@ricecurrylife]

Lmao

[@angusrumplemeyer1791]

Funny how The Dragons often go after people for outsourcing their products to other countries and say we need to bring more products back to being made in Britain, and this time talk about it being better to outsource because its cheaper. 🤣

[@ADDisAOK]

Well yeah. They only want to outsource when they're involved in the company, that way they can go "Look! In year 1 I doubled their profits!" And leave out the "By cutting their quality down by 75%!"

[@ArtemKonstantinovich]

Yeah right?! I thought the same thing.

[@lukerinderknecht2982]

*their

[@angusrumplemeyer1791]

@@lukerinderknecht2982 Feltcher

[@b-dogs1038]

.. finding a sweet place between people, environment & product. ‘Ok.. now I’ve got it ‘

[@aaronhurst4379]

"What we do is we invent beauty" Surprised no one asked for a patent confirmation.

[@00Kuja00]

Hilary looked like Cleopatra sitting in that chair.^^

[@pimpozza]

Lmao 🤣 👍👊

[@drunkdunc8738]

His story makes me want to buy a bottle of absinthe, not chairs 😲🍻

[@davidjohnscottMUFC1996]

Hahaha 😄😂

[@hopehilton]

“My dad’s guard dog was attacking an orphan, and I immediately thought, ‘hey, what about the product?’”

[@VivecAlmsivi]

This was like someone trying to sell NFT's LMAO

[@tessjuel]

It's not that bad. NFT's are only expensive because they are expensive. Those chair have genuine quality too. But at those prices they are still only people who want to show off their wealth so yes, it is similar.

[@Dude-etiquette]

Let me take you to my childhood in SA, I was a deprived while child, with only two black slaves, I really struggled

[@theovolz3073]

I feel like one is better off _not_ putting covers on the products. I know everyone likes the idea of a “big reveal” when they’re in the den, but if the Dragons can study the product prior to the entrepreneur’s entrance, I feel like they are more likely to fall in love with the product. Once the entrepreneur is in there, the Dragons are forced to pay most of their attention on them.

[@BabbleOn777]

Yeah, even with a degree in arts, i am struggling with the simile story and the actual cost of the furniture. I see where he was trying to go, but it doesn't jive with me. Yeah, sorry a musical box doesn't help. When a millionaire that can afford it says he won't spend money on a single chair just proves he is a tad out of touch with reality.

[@Dean_dialectic]

Cool story, bro. Imagine the depraved mind that would lean on an anecdote of police brutality in a neo-colonial context no less to try and flog his overpriced furniture. Imagine boasting about "authenticity" while selling a product that isn't even produced, much less reinvests, in the culture you're exploiting. This pitch is lightly comical on the surface, but is actually pretty exploitative when you dig beneath this smiling assassin's veneer.

[@AmitTheAsura]

THANK you!! Weird I had to scroll down to find this comment lol

[@cherishgwynn5461]

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[@colmwhateveryoulike3240]

He saw people disrespecting people in his father's business and made up his mind to imbue his own business with a more holistic ethos. I don't see why you demand more from him than that.

[@jamest3336]

SMILING ASSASSIN hahahah

[@Karen-ig6bp]

Sadly he tried to use the old (yawn) apartheid trick in trying to get the business. That line has been on a hollow ride and people getting bit tired of it. Love his tenacity though but business is business. More homework and business projection could've gained a better perspective.

[@boneyarsebogman]

I can't really tell why he was talking about Apartheid South Africa...

[@TheManInBlueFlames]

It showed the background to the product.

[@SirPeterlll]

The story seemed random and has nothing to do with the product

[@markporter7443]

You would certainly need one of those to sit down on after asking " excuse me what's the cost of this one please "

[@Nocturnalux]

Theo’s look while the guy us going off his story, is everything.

[@monicaclasener]

This type of chair takes up a very large space. Nothing new, 1970 design.

[@maxoconnor8187]

The Dragon's look bored to tears during the pitch.

[@billbrooks4694]

brilliant !

[@jochenheiden]

“so a dog was attacking a buy and I realized the product didn’t match the color of the floor and I had to act!”

[@reaperoflostsouls4323]

Big copper swing chair for the garden. How long before someone nicks it for the scrap value. And even if no one nicks it whats to stop the copper turning green.

[@farmersplanet]

That's luxury and you can't just pitch luxury products, it grows from some were to becoming luxury company

[@tashastarling870]

Omg i had a good laugh. Just "I'm going to sell, a lot of swings"

[@ceeceepenington7320]

...and I will take my flower back now, thank you.

[@boneyarsebogman]

If any other business said they had sold just 30 products, then they'd be laughed at. But when your product seems to cost of a minimum of £3,000 ...

[@-b8683]

Well it’s a higher priced product which means he’s making a decent amount from 30 products?

[@PhilosophyofElivagar]

I mean.. obviously?

[@franciscolaurean8550]

Product cost almost 1k so he prob made like 75-100k

[@AynOtori]

Is he on drugs? What was that story...

[@dazediss6629]

Cmon mate. A guy broke into a South African factory to get some sleep & was mauled by dogs. So…. He started making musical chairs. It’s pretty easy to see how he got there if you eat enough mushrooms.

[@TheManInBlueFlames]

He wasn't on drugs. This story was about HIS story and what inspired him despite the difficulties. He felt the story would buy MANY people into the product.

[@SirPeterlll]

Was a random story, nothing to do with the product

[@TheManInBlueFlames]

It wasn't random at all. People do this all the time in Dragons Den.

[@ami1340]

My dad helped write that speech and I can confirm they are both complete nut jobs 😂

[@carolin2544]

This dude is looking for a philanthropist to "adopt" him, aka continuously commission him and make all his friends buy art pieces. Worked great for artists in the past who'd just paint one royal/aristocrat family member after the other while doing personal work in between, but ye, it's not a business for investors who'd like to earn money. Mr Myburgh's still making cool stuff though and has his own website (just scroll past the links about the pro cricket player with the same name when you google him lol).

[@LitteJeanie]

Probably best to avoid them during thunderstorms.

[@STE.B]

I just love Hilary!

[@gregblake2764]

"People say he's a dreamer, but he's not the only one." I don't know how many times I've come across someone like this who doesn't have a clue how to run a business let alone support themselves, but believe they have a vision, are super special, and wonder why the rest of us don't see it. Too bad, "he could have been a contender".

[@bozidar.dimovski]

Imagine him pitching the backstory for the copper pots to investors in Seth Effrika.....factory, dog, mauling, boy, box, ingredients....for copper with holes in it ready to be inhabited by eg..spiders, leaf litter, damp...etc....fougheddabouddit!...I'm Out!

[@Uvray]

What a very odd man with some inordinately expensive chairs.

[@aquarianguy]

The story about the dog mauling the boy with the box and the product was really about a realization that he had, that the components parts were juxtaposed rather than harmonious. He then sought to create harmony amongst; the product, the boy, a dog on a pillow in a swing, and the entire scene framed, like an aesthetic box would be. I understand artists sometimes but unfortunately most artists believe they'll never be understood.

[@minashah9933]

Wow that’s a great comment. Made me think 💭

[@Raiko01]

yeah thats not a story that you can tell and expect people to have the revelation that you had in that moment

[@aquarianguy]

@@Raiko01 You're right, they simply couldn't correlate the story to the product. Now you know what's it's like to be me sometimes :(

[@franciscolaurean8550]

I don't know what both you guys going on about :')

[@sowohs]

This is what I write in my literature analysis essays to make it look like I know what I’m talking about.

[@jpfox4329]

A complete dreamer

[@franciscolaurean8550]

5k for an egg chair wow

[@thejuiceweasel]

The guy lost me at 00:28

[@TheManInBlueFlames]

11:01 is where he lost me.

[@jamest3336]

“Steve, you’re not” “I’m not what?”

[@gregstar77]

He had a vision and thought, so where to now? 😮

[@godxxofxxwar22]

“So you want me to invest 70 thousand pounds and then tell you how to make money?” “Yes” :0 bruh you can’t say that lol I love the honesty though

[@kimballentyne9069]

Licence it or rent it out to companies, hotels, exhibitions, etc.

[@lethaltizzl]

What on earth was that story?

[@lukerinderknecht2982]

That was hands down the most bizarre pitch I've seen on this show.

[@Ali-Najafi7]

I want what he’s on 😂

[@JL-gf3yc]

Loved his enthusiasm

[@ruffsnap]

For those commenting about how a "chair doesn't need a story" - I get that mindset, but more people buy into that than are like you, and that = making money lol, so if you want to make money too, you need to get on board with "sappy backstories".

[@hiimjustin8826]

My wife got sick so I made this product to help with her illness < - I jive with this I saw a boy being mauled by a dog so I decided to make chairs < - The exit is on your right

[@Nocturnalux]

But the story was appalling. Even if I had the money and the desire to buy a chair- or invest in him- I’d opt out just because of the story.

[@ruffsnap]

@@Nocturnalux It wouldn't work on me either to be fair, but this kind of stuff absolutely works on lots of people, plenty enough to make plenty of money, so it's still a smart business move to do it.

[@TheJohnCooperShow]

Hillary thinking if she can get one of these fit in her gingerbread house

[@JamesFodor]

Tf was that opening story?

[@DaisyGeekyTransGirl]

Theo seemed a bit appalled by the realisation made about the product instead of what seems to be yet another dark episode of South Africa’s apartheid.

[@johnmchugh4655]

Deborah seemed more focused on her nails in that series than the entrepreneurs...

[@aquarius_bb6658]

She is quite fidgety with her nails in most episodes ive noticed lol

[@annkirshner4468]

She's always messing with her fingers, nails, cuticles. It's a soothing strategy for some people

[@chloeb3430]

This guy is Great 🙌🏻🇬🇧

[@ami1340]

He’s actually very rich now lol

[@HarrymanGR]

6:13 said it all for me

[@TheManInBlueFlames]

What about 11:01 ?

[@markjones952]

If anyone reading this has a company that they would like me to invest in.... I'm out.

[@TheManInBlueFlames]

Okay, captain Cocky!

[@S-rn6xn]

I swear they moan if something isn’t made in the Britain but also moan when it is 😂

[@excellentcat3878]

🤣🤣

[@g00dnatur3]

this guy is nutty

[@jakehay3074]

I really liked this guy. A unique pitch, a touch of heart, a beautiful product, and an honesty rarely seen in the den. I can see what the Dragons are saying too, but I hope he has done well for himself regardless.

[@colmwhateveryoulike3240]

Me too! :)

[@ami1340]

Surprisingly he’s doing very well now and he’s very wealthy

[@maverickstclare3756]

Could have bought the business for the price of 4 chairs !

[@juliet7703]

This man was comical

[@annkirshner4468]

Hate the pitch, love the swing

[@shanehall98]

It’s too much money and lots of people will not able to afford these in fact most people probably have less money in there bank accounts.

[@jessicamoise8454]

He can sell private weathly individual and museum

[@shadaba.qureshi4367]

Honestly, I did not understand this guy's story or furniture and the link between the two. perhaps artisans are eccentric but will not part with my money to fund someone's crazy vision. Although, this chap has carved out a niche for himself and his business. I guess, the World has enough eccentric buyers too. 800 pound cost price, 5000 + selling price, he's no fool though.

[@faroukhalbas1212]

No we don't have these in Morocco Hilary 😂

[@Lowkeyyshorts]

I’m too early to the comment section 😂😂😂

[@HAn-ie2zp]

Can't understand why all the dragons think it's such great products. Looks like expensive crap to me.

[@alexanderhosch2515]

That pitch was so cringe and seriously WTH with the dogs story

[@Dude-etiquette]

I don’t know how to take this guy, he just rubs me the wrong way

[@SirPeterlll]

Weird pitch story and pretty expensive products.

[@dilwich]

Loon.

[@snowedman2993]

Why doesn’t he make them for 800 sell them for 2000 then lots of people can afford them O I don’t want any money for my serves thanks

[@davidmcloughlin6547]

What in the Nelson Mandela was the point or relevance of that story??

[@aaronlomax6102]

Hilary must’ve been thinking “well this is certainly more comfortable than my broomstick!”

[@Misty_Mountains1]

U don't have to insult her. She has had medical issues and yet a boss business woman. Very admirable person.

[@free_gold4467]

If Hilary is a witch, then I like witches.

[@michaelwalsh1363]

Using apartheid to become wealthy with very expensive chairs, the cost is exorbitant, come to South Africa bro and build them for a quarter of the price

[@Fush1234]

A little odd fella. A little odd

[@SilverMist0121]

Chicken tikka wrap

[@balance3201]

Sacrilegious

[@ellenkarlsson9490]

Sounds yummy! 😋

[@Jimverse_]

My mate came round and surprised me with a pizza

[@SilverMist0121]

@@Jimverse_ nice hope it wasn't pineapple lol

[@Jimverse_]

@@SilverMist0121 Nah it was just a cheese and tomato type deal but it was a nice surprise

[@TheZerok666]

What are you eating today?

[@simonpeter5301]

Spanikopita

[@ShockMagics]

Chicken nuggets and chips!

[@RockyDave]

Packet of cheap Tesco crisps... Dragon's Den pitch that I don't understand... Product that I (personally) find hideous... I'm out.

[@ThePrimeMinisterOfTheBlock]

What on earth?

[@HaggardPillockHD]

He's still making a decent living from it so he'll be fine

[@zyxw-oe8hg]

Im sorry but I personally do not enjoy the look of those swinging chairs

[@jochenheiden]

This dude was on drugs. I have no idea what that story he told had to do with the price of tea in China.

[@moogleking]

Too much artist and not enough business

[@TheManInBlueFlames]

Another day, *ANOTHER* Hillary pitch!

[@thabangkhatide2041]

Sounds South African

[@thabangkhatide2041]

Haha yup, I was right 😅

[@safehouse8020]

Don't give nothing

[@kierandesouza7678]

now a dissolved business

[@JRWB78]

He talks a lot of crap.

[@WinstonBuford]

unbearable

[@V77710]

Why is he calling himself "my burgh"..its pronunctuated "may burgggh" is he ashamed of his heritage

[@heatherwalters3543]

Oh my GOD. USE SA HISTORY IN YOUR PATHETIC PITCH.

[@shaunohagan1491]

Being honest now....who would give you the dirtiest night? Deborah or Hillary and her accent?

[@scottishmudders8357]

Honestly Sarah willingham or whatever her name was she was hot I think Deborah though but feel like when you’d pull your trousers down she’s gonna say … do you have a patent on that ?

[@excellentcat3878]

😂😂

[@excellentcat3878]

Would choose Deborah 😍❤️

[@thatguywholovespandas7287]

Take us back to us apartheid South Africa yeah like Barbra, Damon and Jenn I’m out

[@ianoian1]

Hilary, "How do you feel it?" I mentioned this to my wife and she asked me, "Do you wanna feel it?" I replied, "I never get tired of feeling you, honey!" So we retired to bed and we felt it!