“It’s About As Useful As a Handbrake On a Canoe” | Dragons’ Den
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ม.ค. 2025
- Tony and Jaimie Smith are pitching their tuk-tuk hailing service which will be based in Liverpool. They're seeking an investment of £65,000 in return for a 20% equity stake in 'City TukTuks'. After a painful start, Touker puts the trio's business model to one side and places himself as a typical tourist...
An international sensation, Dragon's Den features entrepreneurs pitching for investment in the Den from our Dragons, five venture capitalists willing to invest their own money in exchange for equity.
#DragonsDen #ToukerSuleyman #Miscommunication
Peter: "Turnover?"
Tom: "I'm fine, thanks I just had a croissant."
Tony lies flat on the floor.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Hahaha
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH F ME
Loooool
Peter : What's your turnover
tony.exe has stopped working.
I'm quite partial to an apple turnover
@@beavis4763 Lol, i was gonna be like, "Ummmmm apple?"
do not understand the word revenue
Hahaha that really made me laugh
404
"What's your gross profit?"
"The money's clean, it ain't dirty."
🤣
😂😂😂😂😂
What's your net revinue?
Oh no, we use rods.
🤔🤣👆
LOLLL 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Peter: What’s your net profit?
Tony: We were in the navy, we weren’t fishermen
Lmfao this is a great comment.
@@darklordojeda It really is!
😂😂😂😂😂
What on earth man 😂
Almost spat out my food
Why does Touker always look so happy when hes out of a deal?? He says it with so much enthusiasm
he gets to keep his money
I think he's just a fairly nice bloke.
Killing them softly
He gets to stay in bed
He gave them a hope by emulating Uber model, made the guy salivate and acknowledge it will be a great business and then pulled out his knife and abruptly slid it in. That was brutal.
This is the worst pitch ive ever seen and im loving it
Worse than the automatic waterfilled bath?
Worse than signal flow?
Worse than the underwear lady?
@Michael B Flow Signals, Derek Cousins is now a multi-millionaire, who is laughing now?
Worse than the girl whos on a crusade in construction?
"Revenue?"
.................
"Income?"
"What's that?"
"How much money?"
"What's money?"
"Pounds."
"Yes, we're looking for £65,000 from you."
But I like ping pong 🏓
C'mon, has he watched the show?
That was painful
You would get more sense out of Homer Simpson
XD
What's your turnover? No no It won't turn over its very stable on the road..
"I'm out"
I'm laughing so hard. I can't even
sir, you have already exited the vehicle 2 minutes ago
🤣🤣🤣
Holy bruh I’m dying 😂
I definitely wouldn't invest in a business that depends on the UK having good weather.
name checks out
Maybe they should have pitched to Sky Weather....
😂 😂 😂 😂 😂
Peter: “What’s the turnover?”
Entrepreneur: “The wheels have been specifically designed to turn over by 360 degrees per revolution”
🤣
One of the worst pitches ever for an absurd business proposal. Excellent television
10/10, would laugh derisively again.
You know that Nick can beat you up?
The way the guy's face just went blissfully vacant whenever they asked him for any kind of numbers.. he's lucky the editors didn't dub some creepy merry-go-round music over it.
Or chirping crickets.
The Magic Roundabout!
🤣 it's only a matter of time before someone else dos and uploads it ...
@@madquest8 Like when the lady in “Spaced” has a job interview.
😂
"Their touk touk idea took a wrong turn for Touker".
What a missed opportunity.
@rishabh bajaj - I thought it was 'tuk - tuk' ?
the tessellater it is
Hahahahaha
I was thinking the same thing
You're hired.
So he basically just used the "can I phone a friend" life line at the first question 🤣🤣🤣
Betty should have come up with a tray full of cupcakes for all she added to the discussion..
@@the_endling Betty still had the best answers out of the lot of them, the most to the point. Why wasn't she on there to begin with?
I love how he is patronising his wife at the beginning “leave it to me” and he is the one who completely messes up!
😆
His hearing also took a turn for the worst....
You wanna get in their relationship?
He wasn't patronising her, he was offering support in case she didnt feel confident or sure on what to say.
@@Rwooshbites yeah it definitely seemed like some of that exchange was cut out. Seemed like he was saying "If you think you can't leave it to me and I'll take over." Like a tag team exchange.
Not even his wife knew. They are dressed in business attire yet don't know what revenue is.
Man, I feel like the producers purposely bring on good ones, and bad ones and try and avoid the in between. Maybe people are more dumb than I thought, but I gotta think 99% of people trying to start a business, no matter how silly, would know there revenue/profit/markup, etc...I'd understand being nervous, or just not knowing certain words, but they gave him 10 different words for revenue...
It was embarrassing to watch.
Isn’t it like an avenue for motorbikes ?
@@unwelcomemotivation
If you don't handle the finances and mathematics scare you it's not that easy.
They did not say moolah, dosh, clams, cowrie.....
so... basically we've built a van and we're driving around solving mysteries in the search for investors
harleysq harleysq first mystery: ‘what does revenue mean?”
I'm old enough to understand this comment. Damn!
@@Jehannum2000 you don't have to be old to know what scooby doo is. it's still one of the most popular cartoons.
lmao
And we would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for these meddling dragons.
Tuk-tuk: *reverses*
Dragons: *applaud excitedly*
_We are all just big kids inside_
That was sarcastic
I rode a horse for the first time the other day. You can make a well trained horse walk backward and when he did, I acted very similar lol
@@ryei6 awesome
surprises and unexpected things are inherently humerous.
“He was an entrepreneur when I met him”
20 years later, still doesn’t know what revenue is. Lol.
lmfao
Haha
Brilliant mate lol
**1 month after Peter invested**
Peter: How is my investment doing?
Tony: Your what?
Peter: My investment.
Tony: Ah yes. That is a nice vest for men you're wearing.
Nice!!😀👏🏻
Best comment on this video
Kind of ironic how he said to let him do the talking if she's not "confident", then when Peter asks what their turnover is he looks at her for help 😄
hahahaha
cun7us I think this fail ranks at no2 for me, The SHUC shower head sucker thingy is still at the top
@@twizzian to be fair, the business idea is not bad, the problem is that they are completely incompetent and not entrepreneurs.
Not being business minded, he was surprised and thought they meant how many times he turns over at night. He thought about it, ...now how should I know cos I'm asleep...turns to his wife ..
I think the wife knew what turnover and revenue meant she tried to tell him but him being a "man" he was like I got this. This realtionship seems sad, she doesn't seem happy with him.
I feel safer that they are no longer in the royal navy.
i saw far more idiots in the fleet than these guys, you should be scared
Same 😂😂
bet prettyboy had fun in the navy lol
Cruel, but fair.😆
daviddeida hahaha
They need to go home and give their son a slap for saying that a tuk-tuk would be cool in Liverpool.
Well to be fair, he's a child. After looking into the idea, these adults should have clearly come to the assumption that no, actually, that's a horrible idea
Taking business advice from a kid is a foul
This comment is too funny
if you're a business-person and seriously took ideas for business from children without properly testing to see if they're marketable ideas, I think the fault lies in you. children will say whatever makes them happy in the moment, you think they think in dollar signs?
HAHAHA!
Amen.
Peter: Turnover?
Tom (surprised): I'm not that kind of a guy!
Oh no you didn't just say that🤣🤣
Vinit
Great One 🤣🤣😍
Hilarious 😆😆
Will you invest Peter? Because if so ill do more than turn over for you, mate
Peter could ask me to turnover any day….
Sometimes I watch these pitches to realize I'm not that bad of a business person
Yes! I too seek this kind of validation🤣
Bro, the thing just started and I'm already cringing for the fact he doesn't know the turnover...
How can one be running a new business and not know, bizarre !
I suppose this programme attracts sophisticated business people as well as those with little idea ! These are clearly in the latter group !
@bitterman co yeah I agree with everything you have said BUT the thing that really floored me wasn't them not knowing their revenue (figures) but not understanding what revenue actually means!!
Bro?? Bro?? 😂😂😂😂
Same bro. I had to stop. Don’t dare continue for the wrath that’s about to unfold
"We are big on Facebook and twitter with 1000 followers" 🤣
Ikr have over 1,500 on insta and I’m not anyone 😂😂😂
@@vibesbynae4860 I have 3 on insta and I'm someone
PS: dont even know those 3
789 VTX dang ur big hella famous 🤩🤣
@@valt1337 🤣🤣🤣
@@vibesbynae4860 im not famous, at least on the internet/social media wthat ever. by "i am someone" i meant that i actually am someone in real life and by this i mean that i have 2 businesses, 38 employees, a nice house and 2 cars, i'm respected and I workout alot and play fifa and pes in my free time. I'm just old school I think, i was never into these social media stuff and i also dont like taking pictures of myself like selfies and other crap like that, i guess im not a showoff i dont know
"whats your revenue?"
"...Liverpool?"
You mean our Revue? It's theatrical satirical entertainment consisting of a series of short sketches, songs and dance.
It’s Liverpool so do you locking wheel nuts on that thing !
Lol
Re-*venue*
The inland, but we were mostly overseas…
This is his best idea yet... Please bring them back to pitch all their previous ideas to the Dragons. The audience wants to see it.
Peter: What's your turnover?
Them: We have had 3 tuk tuks roll over to this day, though it is reasonable to expect a more to come
We've only been trading for 5 months so we project an annual turn-over of 7.2 tuk tuks. Next year we project that 12 tuk tuks will turn over.
Best comment. deserves way mores votes.
@@SparrowwithaMachinegun Thx dude XD
No, your revenue? Oh the inland, but we are mostly overseas…
Touker doesn't get out of bed until he's slapped out of bed.
Best comment I've read today 😂😂
Haha😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂
By his rent boy
I died at this comment ;)
I literally dropped my phone when she said “oh that’s not right, oh yeah that’s right”
I had to pause the video multiple times throughout this video. That was one of those times.
Why were you holding your phone?
@Tejas Misra Just sit there and watch the video without playing with your phone? I don't understand why people have to be looking at their phone when doing just about everything in life.
@@BenjaminGoose probably watching the video on their phone?
@@BenjaminGoose Why were they holding their phone? Maybe they were standing up or sitting somewhere where there was nowhere to rest the phone(i.e. on a bus). That seems obvious.
Who else saves these episodes until they're eating?
i watch these while eating breakfast
Adam ha ha , sat here at work eating my sandwiches
Having some sandwiches right now.....
I save these for when I'm pooing, so I guess it's sort of the same thing.
Me too funny isn't it
Touker slapping himself out of his daydream, especially after the guy's optimistic reaction, really had me belly laughing.. What a character, this dragon!
Literally made me laugh sm
Gave them hope for no reason sigh
Haha he went full savage 🤣🤣 usually it's Peter who lives for destroying people lol
I love the fact that the producers and reseachers would of known how clueless there were in business matters and thought this will make great TV sent them into the den.
Entrepreneur when she met him but doesn’t know what his turnover is.
LOL
20:30hrs Friday
Bruh the turnover part killed me
He's more about the apple turnover pastries.
The most unprepared pitch in recent history! Peter: How much turnover in the last year? Entrepreneur: What's turnover?
How can these people not be prepared for these questions after 15 more years of this show being on air?
The one thing people are ALWAYS grilled on is the financial side of the business! To not have those details at hand is disastrous. Doomed before they even started.
Because it's a show! Which means these aren't necessarily completely authentic...
Call me uncultured but I just heard about Dragons Den
@@7z967 If I were going on a show I think I’d watch a few episodes of the show ahead of time, though.
they don't watch Dragon's Den at all, huh? How could they not know their turnover lmao
They thought you eat it not earn it.
They don't even understand what turnover means let alone remember the figures.
That was so weird 🥴
@@lukereeves3711 Underrated comment 🏆
Peter Jones knows what Jessops turnover is, bugger all, even without lockdown.
@@SageTheRage disagree. 1/3 r overweight...
Imagine if when asked the question they really just stood there in awkward silence for like 2 minutes
Apparently these pitches can last several hours sometime so it may have been longer than 2 minutes of silence lol can you imagine lol!?!?
The guy had it written all over his face "I have no clue about my business, please give me money, so I can run away and never have to pay you back."
I think me and two strangers down the local could have come up with a better pitch and business model within 5 minutes. Most cringey one of these I've seen in ages.
How about that girl that pretended to faint and got help.
Almost looks staged as well
Probably many a successful business started with the right people striking up a conversation over a pint or three.
@@uvwxyzero LOL which one? The bubble bath one or the one who got wheeled out eating a banana
I just blushed on their behalf! 😳
Touker has an office in London, you can park them there
If you already have a manager before the business is set up, you shouldn't be an entrepreneur.
This is the most underrated comment here.
They've been operating for five months.
@@remchaill9898 Personally, i believe you need to produce a stable (incrementing) cash flow, for at-least a year to be classed as having a good business model. If the business is not guaranteed to make money on a monthly basis, its not set-up, and needs more work. This business was not set up, because they couldn't guarantee in-come month after month. And the owner had already made himself more of a liability than an asset by hiring a manager. Pathetic, no entrepreneurial qualities at all. Doomed from the start.
Not to mention, the manager they hired was not too competent,
3:11 ‘What’s your turnover?’
‘It’s a Tuk Tuk m8 just go round any corner and it’ll turn over with ease’
I like Nick, he is clever, pays attention and finds flaws in people's businesses but is also fair
They never stopped to ask themselves why you dont see tuk tuks outside of southeast asia where it's warm all year round. I bet all the tourist who go to the uk really miss out on seeing the iconic british tuk tuks
And in SE Asia they use them because you can pack many humans in a cheap and tiny space without regards for safety.. I've seen a car hit one of these, not pretty 🤦🏼♀️
@@the_endling I have seen cars hitting cars. Not pretty either.
@@sayamqazi try getting whalloped in a tuk tuk. Even worse lol.
There are a lot of Tuk Tuks on the streets of central London offering tourists rides around.
If you dont know the financial stuff then dont bother coming into the den.
NSA agent 100%
unless your jeff bezos or elon musk, what's the point of even getting out of bed in the morning as a business owner who isn't aware of what your turnover is...
This is what happens when people with no basic understanding of entrepreneurship start doing business. These are the BASICS. It's like building a house with no foundations.
Anyone pitching a business has to known some basic numbers
The crazy point here is that to know to come on the show you must have seen an episode, and seen these questions get asked to expect them. I just can’t understand why you’d even go on without knowing these
Seriously this whole pitch became a mess after the first question.
I can’t believe they came on national tv to do this to themselves 😩
And to make it worst, it’s now on the internet for the world to see.
Haha they made such colossal asses of themselves lmfao
4:56 I'd hardly call him "on the warpath" for asking what their annual revenue is. It's pretty much the first question they ask everyone.
2:04 “Ladies first”
*Touker walks in first*
ELLIPSES Is Power looool
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Tuk tuks are not suitable for the UK weather!
Pay to get hyperthermia while sightseeing 🤔
But y'all have double decker buses...
@@pattipeters9861 double deckers usually only come out in the summer, they are rarer in other seasons.
Classic case of people working for the government and then assuming running a business would be just as easy. You don't need to be informed or competent- just show up and you are a hero.
Underrated comment seriously. I can imagine he probably read a personal development book and thought I'll have a go.
I don’t imagine that either of them had leadership roles, or held any sort of responsibility in the Navy.
I know a few Royal Navy officers and former military and they’re all competent and put together people with high intelligence. When faced with this situation, even if they didn’t know what turnover meant, they would have deduced what the dragons would want to know and would certainly know, by heart, the basics of their business. These types of people aren’t normally your usual incompetent bureaucrat
Serving his country in the navy you mean ?
You’re not wrong Kirk. There’s a stereotype of ratings/JR’s not getting promoted whilst still in, then demobbing thinking they know and can do better. This is a good example
@@elliottdennis2014 Interesting, my boss is a salesman and ex-military. Very good at it, too.
Me: my cars broken
Kardoctor: get an electric tuk tuk
Thanks Kardoctor!
And then your in a hidden and you see flow signals coming towards you
I love how they freeze at the very first business question they're asked. And, all that after he tells her to be confident and he'll take over if she doesn't know what to say.
This was the most unprepared proposal ever!
When peter said handbrake on a canoe ... the scousers thought ... hang on, we could do that.
lol
Or a sunshine roof on a submarine!
Or the proverbial chocolate teapot.
The fact he said he's had lots of ideas 😂😂😂💡💡💡 I can only imagine his other great ideas.
And this one is the best one??? He must be surrounded by the dumbest Yes Men in England.
A waterproof teabag...
@@eugenecheong7066 LOL. Love this comment!
This is one of the most painful things I’ve watched. Yet I really enjoy it..
I looked City TukTuks up and I saw a Liverpool Echo news story that said they were having to close the business because the Albert Dock had asked for very high rates to operate there. Seems like Nick was right, without a workable agreement, their business closed.
They literally don’t know what the word “revenue” means 😩 Jesus these plops were in the Navy?!?
_Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the waves_
Well, to be fair, you don't need to know what revenue and turnover is to be in the navy.
You do if you open a business though
@@Quartzaoe The point is that they're dumb.
😆
LEXA SUPREMACY
“Turnover?” That dudes reaction was great
When Touker got into the driver seat of the touk touk at the start I thought he was start driving and shout "touk touk Touker Sullyman!"
I have never seen a pitch go down in flames so quickly. Peter starts by asking the most basic question, "what's your turnover?" and these two instantly go blue screen of death on him.
😂😂😂
@@feonor26 Npc
@@themug406 what?
@@feonor26he looked like an npc that had finished his dialogue
@@tobymacdonald5893 haha true
Tony: "And it reverses too!"
Peter: "Wow!!! Alright, so what's your revenue?"
Tony: *[surprised pikachu face]*
12:35 - "I went on a little dream"
They were offering much more than 2% touker, you should be out of bed.
Next Gen Trent excellent execution of character themed meme!!
Jesus Christ, they fell at the first hurdle 😂
Niall Connell I would have forgiven Jenny if she’d said “I’m out” at the end of their first question
Dragons- 'So what's your turn over?'
Them- 'Yes.'
haha
lol
Them: we have had 3 tuk tuks roll over to this day, tho we expect a few more in the future.
No one that pressed like on this has an iq over 80
Tells the wife if she's having problems leave it to him.
Comes across as more clueless than the wife.
This was excruciatingly cringeworthy. They two don't have a clue and their general manager was even worse than them.
Right what's your Turnover 😐 Revenue 😐Sales 😳
Answer 🤔
I'm not one to judge a book by it's cover but when I saw Linda - the finance guru walk to the den, I was like "oh no, this is heading only one way, down" and I was quite right
And yet she's probably the only reason they even lasted five months.
How many Lindas have you met in your life?
The fear in the lads voice as he summoned her 💀💀💀
Of course you're not.
Not really helping with the Liverpool stereotypes
A company in India reported 5 missing tuk-tuks just before this episode aired.
which are? (foreigner here)
Liverpool? Surprised the tyres are still attached
Liverpool typically receives about 73.48 millimeters (2.89 inches) of precipitation and has 169.57 rainy days (46.46% of the time) annually.
bruh how does he not know his turnover
Or his costs. It's insane.
Not important; he traveled the world with the Royal Navy .......
Team33 😂
PMB Skills he didn’t know what turnover was let alone the turnover of the business
It's not that he didn't know his turnover it's the fact he didn't know what the word turnover meant
UPDATE: (2016) Liverpool’s Tuks Tuks have reached the end of the road and are due to stop their tours of the city later this month.
The company says it cannot continue from their current base at the Albert Dock and have been unable to find an alternative location, although the council says they have offered other sites which have been turned down.
🌺 thanks
Wonder if they would have done better in London a lot more tourists all year round too!
Tony: Just be confident. If you're not, leave it to me.
Jaimie: OK
Peter: What's the turnover?
Tony: * crickets *
They have the vacant stares of a couple who would try and get you into a Pyramid Scheme
That tuk tuk a turn for the worse lol 😆
Massively embarrassing for the three of them, but mostly the couple. They must be ashamed of themselves for their utter incompetency.
I don't know if they're smart enough to fully realize how badly they did, let alone be ashamed.
I like how they clapped when it reversed
TheSimon253 🤣🤣🤣
They also ooh and aaah at fireworks
These guys are so very inept it's scary. Burn 65k in no time.
Jesus how unprepared are they:
- doesnt know what revenue is
- doesnt know how own tuk tuks work
- hasnt even created a contract
"What's your revenue? . . . turnover . . . profit . . . sales . . . " answers with a blank stare.
Even their 'general manager' could not give a straight answer on the numbers.
Hardly confidence inspiring.
I'm out.
That pitch touk a bad turn
"If you're not confident I'll take over alright"
Then look at how they hold hands
yes great spot! she is on top and in front leading him haha
The dragons are always keen to explain why they are out. They drop so much knowledge and ideas for future opportunities in improving a failed pitch, but you have to wonder if it goes in one ear or out the other. Absolutely ludicrous.
'Leave the talking to me....' First question ...SILENCE 😂😂
Peter: "What are your margins like?"
Tony: "I prefer marmalade on my toast."
Cheese stuffed, your honour
This is embarrassing 🤦🏼♀️
I don't think these people had seen Dragon's Den before.
Before he went in he says, "i have ideas, this is the best one..." Wonder what his other ideas were?... Tuktuk bras.
Canoe with a handbrake.
He'd be so boring (but effective) as a football manager as there'd never be a turnover of possession! (I know, so forced).
Ashtrays for motorcycles.
Submarine with flyscreen windows.
Fire ant pants
Christ alive, between the three of them I’m shocked they even managed the form to apply for the den 😂
Let's appreciate Linda's dodge:
Nick: Does it rain in Liverpool?
Linda: Only on a day with a Y in it
Oh, wait a sec, isn't it every single day 🧐🤣
Ya. I hated that little joke because she’s no better than the rest of them. 😂
it was supposed to be a joke. thats why they went on pointing out the covers.
Peter : Whats the turnover ?..Ummm..apple?.
"Turnover" you do not have to be a specialist to know the meaning of turnover...
Costs £36000 a year to run, will bring in £40000 a year. That’s a massive £76.92 profit per week! Who wouldn’t want to hop on the Tuk Tuk gravy train??!!!?
It was over when they couldn't answer the turnover question, yet the advocate somehow made it worse 😮
love it when they are in the elevator and he says to her stuff like " speak confidently" and
" dont worry if you are not, leave it to me and i will take over..." 😂