Just The Gist

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Most people think of 'Shark Tank' as the show where hopeful entrepreneurs try to get rich people to invest in their ridiculous inventions (wine for cats, anyone?). And while that's a big part of it, Shark Tank has (surprisingly) also been the launch of some BILLION dollar companies. Scrub Daddy was discovered on Shark Tank, and it's not even close to being the most successful company that got its start on the show. One shark put $50,000 into a product that had not sold a single unit, and it has made her tens of millions. Another turned a $400,000 investment into an estimated $300 million.
This is Just The Gist (MINI!) of the top ten Shark Tank success stories: the billion dollar brands, the best deals Lori Greiner, Mark Cuban, Barbara Corcoran, Daymond John and Robert Herjavec ever made, and the no-deal pitch Kevin O'Leary now calls probably the biggest miss in the show's history.
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Just The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producers: Kate Leaver, Hayley Staveley & Sammy Petersen | Acast Legend: Guy Scott-Wilson | Production Assistant: Pocket
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8 Most Successful Products From "Shark Tank" (Investopedia, 2026)
Kevin O'Leary Is Lying (A Bit Fruity with Matt Bernstein, 2026)
List of Shark Tank investments (Wikipedia, 2026)
10 Successful Shark Tank Businesses and Their Marketing Strategies (Brand Vision, 2025)
Top 15 Shark Tank Businesses (Shark Tank Blog, 2023)
The 15 biggest 'Shark Tank' success stories of all time (Business Insider, 2015)
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In 1995, Selena Quintanilla was about to become one of the biggest pop stars in the world. Just 23 years old, she was already considered the Queen of Tejano music and was easily the most famous singer on the Latin-American charts. .People often said it wasn’t that she was ‘the Latin Madonna’ but that Madonna was ‘the English Selena’. She'd just played to a record 61,000 people at the Houston Astrodome in her home state of Texas, she'd won a Grammy, she was the face of Coca-Cola, and she was halfway through recording her first English-language pop album that was going to make her a household name everywhere, not just Texas. Until, one morning in March 1995, Selena was suddenly and shockingly murdered by the president of her fan club.

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Just The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producers: Kate Leaver, Hayley Staveley & Sammy Petersen | Acast Legend: Guy Scott-Wilson | Production Assistant: Pocket

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Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party.

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Selena y Los Dinos: A Family's Legacy (Netflix, 2025)

Selena's killer Yolanda Saldívar shows no remorse after 30 years, says DA (KATV, 2025)

Selena and Yolanda: The Secrets Between Them (Oxygen, 2024)

Selena: A Star Dies in Texas (VAULT Studios podcast, 2020)

Murder Made Me Famous Podcast: Yolanda Saldivar (Reelz, 2018)

From the Archives: 20/20 sits down with Selena's killer (KXXV, 2016)
Murder of Selena (Wikipedia, 2026)
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"I hope your venue gets firebombed." That was a real comment on a real Instagram post from a small lesbian bar in Greenfield, Massachusetts, announcing that one night a week, masks would be optional.
The Last Ditch Bar and Arts Venue opened in 2025 as a COVID-conscious, anti-capitalist bar where no one could be turned away, and it's now the subject of what has reportedly become the Boston Globe's most clicked story in a decade. This is Just The Gist (MINI!) of the Last Ditch lesbian bar: the $50,000 loan, the 400-comment Instagram post, the 3½ hour community meeting that fell apart on Zoom, and the co-founder who left to go to clown school.
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Just The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producers: Kate Leaver, Hayley Staveley & Sammy Petersen | Production Assistant: Pocket
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Saturday Night at the Massachusetts Lesbian Bar Everyone Is Talking About (The New York Times, 2026)
Mask-free Saturday nearly cancelled at Massachusetts lesbian bar at center of controversy (New York Post, 2026)
How to Destroy a Lesbian Bar (The Atlantic, 2026)
#NotAllLesbians - we can't let the Massachusetts bar drama turn us all into a punchline (The Guardian, 2026)
A Western Mass. lesbian bar required KN-95 masks. When it changed the rules, all hell broke loose. (The Boston Globe, 2026)
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This month marks 25 years since 9/11, and of all the images to come out of that day, possibly the most haunting is one that was published the next morning and then quietly disappeared. Richard Drew's photo of a man falling headfirst beside the North Tower of the World Trade Center caused so much outrage when it ran on 12 September 2001 that newspapers stopped printing it almost overnight. Around 200 people fell from the Twin Towers that morning, but only one became a symbol, and journalists spent years trying to put a name to him. Should they have? This is Just The Gist of The Falling Man: the Associated Press photographer who captured every person he saw fall, the Windows on the World staff trapped above the fire, Tom Junod's 2003 Esquire story that became one of the magazine's most read ever, the search for his identity that reached the families of Norberto Hernandez and Jonathan Briley, and the widow who begged a reporter to clear her husband's name.
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We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there's Breakin' Nooz, JTG After Show AND Bonus eps! You can access them by joining the Gistener Club via the Just The Gist Patreon or Apple Premium Subscriptions.
Watch Just The Gist episodes on Youtube @JustTheGistPodcast
Follow Just The Gist on Instagram and TikTok @JustTheGistPodcast
Follow Rosie in all the places at @RosieWaterland
Want to give us a SuGISTion? Tell Rosie to stop singing so much? Email us at hello@justthegist.com.au
Just The Gist is a Just The Network production. Executive Producer and Host: Rosie Waterland | Senior Producer and Editor: James Joseph | Producers: Kate Leaver, Hayley Staveley & Sammy Petersen | Acast Legend: Guy Scott-Wilson | Production Assistant: Pocket
Don't forget to follow and give us 5 stars, which means something apparently!
Thank you, as always, for Gistening. Now go say something impressive at a dinner party.
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Truth about the Falling Man (Daily Mail, 2026)
Why this photographer's 9/11 'Falling Man' photo remains controversial (USA Today, 2026)
'It Became Spiritual': The Making of Esquire's 'The Falling Man' (Esquire, 2021)
9/11: The Falling Man (YouTube, 2006)
The Falling Man (Esquire, 2003)

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