Ithaca College

Pima Mbwana, IC alumnus who received his B.S. in IMC in 2014, announces that the company he co-founded, The Cut Buddy, will be featured on ABC’s Shark Tank on Sunday, November 12, at 9 p.m. EST/8 p.m. CST.

The Cut Buddy will appear before the Sharks to see if any of them are willing to bite and invest in the company.

The Cut Buddy, a haircut and beard template company that became a viral success and No. 1 bestseller on Amazon, has been featured in such leading outlets as GQ, Forbes, Black Enterprise, and The Huffington Post, as well as on NPR’s How I Built This with Guy Raz, a podcast about innovators and entrepreneurs. The Cut Buddy’s video tutorial on how to use the product went viral and was viewed on Facebook over 10 million times, resulting in 4,000 sales in less than an hour. For more information on The Cut Buddy, see http://www.thecutbuddy.com.

Pima Mbwana said: “All of our team members here have an attitude of gratitude with this whole process of being on Shark Tank. We strive to be an inspiration for our alma maters and their students.”

The multi-Emmy® Award-winning reality show Shark Tank states that it “has reinvigorated entrepreneurship in America” and returned to The ABC Television Network in fall 2017 for its ninth season. For more information on Shark Tank, see http://abc.go.com/shows/shark-tank