Shark Tank Night
Each guest pitches a business — a genuine startup, a gloriously terrible one, or a product they wish existed. The table asks hard questions and invests monopoly money. Biggest raise takes a ridiculous trophy. Equal parts ambition and roast.
What it's for
Give everyone a two-minute stage to be either genuinely ambitious or magnificently absurd — and the table’s money will sort out which.
The guest's job
Prepare a pitch — a real idea, a terrible one, or the product the world desperately doesn’t need — and present it with conviction.
The vote
Each shark allocates monopoly money; the biggest raise wins the trophy and the mockery.
The reveal
Post-raise: the host asks each shark to justify their biggest investment in one sentence.
Food & drink spine
Something appropriately aspirational — fancy snacks, champagne on the table, a trophy the host sourced for $4.
Conversation fuel
"Which pitch would you actually fund with real money if you had to?"
How it flops — steer around it
All parody, no stakes. The format works best when at least one person pitches something they genuinely believe in.