North Carolina startup The Woobles that turned $200 into $5 million going on ‘Shark Tank’


Adrian Zhang and Justine Tiu, founders of Durham-based crochet startup The Woobles, have already turned a $200 investment into a $5 million enterprise. Later this week, their company gets its “Shark Tank” debut — putting more eyeballs than ever on the crochet-training kits the ed-tech company sells.

Ahead of the episode, which airs at 8 p.m. Sept. 30 on ABC (NYSE: DIS), Zhang and Tiu can’t reveal whether sharks such as Kevin O’Leary, Mark Cuban or Lori Greiner were hooked. But they did…

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