After four months, both co-founders left their day jobs — Hodges was a Blue Bottle Coffee barista, and Atout was a production manager at Amtrak — to focus on the growing business full-time.
At the time of the "Shark Tank" episode's taping, the co-founders said Songlorious was on pace to bring in $2.5 million this year.
On the episode, the couple landed an additional $500,000 from four of the five Sharks — Mark Cuban, Daymond John, Kevin O'Leary and guest Shark Peter Jones, a star investor from British sister show "Dragon's Den" — in exchange for a 40% stake in the company.The couple tried to counter the offer, asking for $800,000 in return for 40% of the company's equity."Think about the amount of money you would have to pay to get four Sharks like us," Jones said.