1Hello sharks, my name is Johnny Georges
2and I'm the creator of the Tree-T-Pee water containment system.
3I'm asking for $150,000 for 20% of my company.
4Tree-T-Pee is water conservation and frost protection at its finest.
5Instead of using 25,000 gallons per tree per year,
6we're now only using 800 gallons per tree per year and doing a better job.
7With a 30% increase in the growth of new trees
8and letting a farmer get his return on his money a whole lot faster.
9When good people come together...
10...
11...with a noble cause, great things happen.
12And water conservation is what Tree-T-Pee is all about.
13Can you tell us how how it works.
14The normal way it's been has been without any kind of containment.
15A farmer cranks on his pumps and runs them 10 hours, 12 hours.
16With the Tree-T-Pee, you contain the water around each tree.
17In about 30 minutes, you're going to have three inches of rain on this tree.
18And if I pull this TreeTP off, we're watering nine feet that way and nine feet that way.
19And it's just really wasting the water. About 10% gets to the tree.
20And nobody figured out a way to make a nozzle that shoots down towards the tree roots?
21Yes sir, but you still get the wind diffusion from that.
22This last freeze, I go out to a grove. I put out five teepees,
23this woman gets out and she walks up to me.
24And she says, you're trespassing in my grove.
25And I said, yes ma'am, but I'm trying to show you something that's getting ready to freeze.
26We have the best frost protection device on the market right here we could put on.
27And she says, you've got to go or I'm calling the police.
28And I said, yes ma'am, here's my card, I'm sorry,
29You know, because these are farmers. This is their land, this is their livelihood.
30So a week later, I get a call from the same woman.
31Hey Johnny, this is Mrs...,
32I said, yes ma'am. She says, I want to pay you for them five teepees.
33And I said, yes ma'am, that's okay, don't worry about it. She says, well, I want you to bring me 4,995 more.
34The only five trees I got alive today.
35And my whole grove is these.
36Is there anything like this on the market?
37No sir, there's no water containment system out there for the micro sprinklers.
38Why only five dollars?
39Because I'm working with farmers and they're buying, they're not buying one,
40they're buying 20,000 7000 10,000... sir?
41Even at 10,000, right? Why not $7?
42Well, I've never done that. I've always tried to be right. I make a dollar off each one.
43Let's say I was a big distributor of water irrigation systems.
44And I see this product and you show it to me.
45And you make it for $2.50 and you sell it for 5, right?
46I'm making it for 2.95, I sell them for 4.50.
47So I can't get involved with you because there's not enough margin for me as a distributor.
48I need to be able to sell it for $12 at least.
49So that I can make some profit and you can make some profit, right?
50Now we're... there's two of us, two mouths to feed.
51Yeah, but you're selling to farmers.
52Okay, I get it, but I'm exploring where your head's at, alright?
53That means that there's no room in it for a distributor that can really scale this up.
54Cuz you said every farmer should have it.
55But in order for that to happen, I need a lot of Johnny's.
56There's only one of you.
57I need like 2000 Johnny's calling on farmers all across the land.
58Now who's gonna pay them, Johnny?
59Who's gonna pay them?
60I'm out.
61Johnny? Yes sir.
62Farmers are the cornerstone of America.
63There may be a lot of farmers out there that can't afford $12 per tree.
64But maybe they could afford six or seven dollars.
65I'm gonna give you everything you're asking for. Your $150,000 for 20%.
66What you're doing is right.
67And you deserve the chance to make it big and do a lot of good.
68I like to be your partner, Johnny.
69Thank you partner!
70I think that's a "yes", JP.
71Well done partner! I'll be a good one too.