TekDry pitches Shark Tank judges and get more — or less? — than asked

The sharks weren’t circling after Denver inventors of a machine that dries out wet smartphones made a pitch on ABC’s Shark Tank on Friday. But TekDry left the show with a $500,000 loan and Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary holding a 5 percent stake in the company.
CEO and co-founder Adam Cookson dramatically tossed his smartphone into a toilet, splashing water onto the carpet in front of the multi-millionaire and billionaire investors. A video showed what happens inside the