Watch Two Drone Guys Achieve the Rare Shark Tank Sweep With Terrifying Device Called 'PhoneDrone'
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This is what it looks like when your history is written, America: two calculating drone freaks enticing a group of television billionaires to go all in for a $6 million valuation that depends on the promise that, one day, all our phones could be drones.
The company is called xCraft, and they came in with a drone model called X PlusOne (pitch sort of like: “Do you like drones that can be programmed to autopilot themselves at a terrifying speed but wish those drones were better at hovering silently?”) and an ask of $500,000 for 20 percent of the company—valuing xCraft at $2.5 million.
Kevin O’Leary tented his hands and crinkled his face, an evil bowling ball. “I’ve been researching this market for the past month,” he said—he just bought some sort of “nature preserve,” he explained, and he needs a top-of-the-line drone to check the property for “diseased trees” (humans who have not yet successfully been hunted before the 48-hour clock runs out).
The X Plus One drone has capabilities far beyond what is legal—it can hover at 10,000 feet—and retails for a price ($1800) that reflects its abilities. Look at that marketing:
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