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Fortune
Jane Thier

How the Bombas founders navigated tumultuous early careers to create the best-selling Shark Tank product in history

Randy Goldberg (left) and David Heath, co-founders of Bombas. (Credit: Fortune)

Don’t let their bombshell Shark Tank appearance from 2014 fool you. Randy Goldberg and David Heath weren’t an overnight success.

The duo are the co-founders of Bombas, the brand best known for donating one pair of socks (or underwear, or slippers, or T-shirt) for each pair purchased. It’s the all-time best-selling product to appear before the panel of Sharks, and received an investment from Daymond John, the Shark with the strongest track record of apparel success. The pair says they prepared for Shark Tank by rehearsing 200 questions they imagined the sharks would ask. 

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