I Want to Draw a Cat For You

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I Want to Draw a Cat For You is an online business owned by Steve Gadlin where customers can purchase custom drawings of stick figure cats that Gadlin draws to the customer's specifications. [1] Gadlin first came up with the idea as a joke, [2] with the goal of seeing if he could construct a successful business using only a widget. [3] The business started in 2011, and originally, its website consisted of only an embedded YouTube video and a PayPal button. [3] The business became well known after Gadlin appeared on Shark Tank (season three, episode two) to promote it, and, on the show, persuaded Mark Cuban to invest $25,000 in the idea. [1] Gadlin stopped accepting orders for the company in January 2015, saying that “The project has run its course.” [4] As of November 2015, Gadlin was accepting orders for custom drawings for $29.99. [5] After a yearlong shutdown, Gadlin resurrected the business in 2019, shifting to producing drawings on an iPad Pro using an Apple Pencil; previously, drawings were made with Sharpie markers on paper and scanned. [6] The business subsequently relaunched in August 2020 on Cameo. [7] [8]

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  2. ↑ Sudo, Chuck (28 December 2011). "Gadlin Takes "I Want to Draw a Cat For You" to ABC's Shark Tank". Chicagoist. Archived from the original on 21 April 2013. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  3. 1 2 Koetsier, John (8 June 2012). "How a 1-man cat-drawing startup won a Mark Cuban investment". Venture Beat. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  4. ↑ Konkol, Mark (13 January 2015). "'Shark Tank' Winner Closes Cartoon Cat Business Funded by Mark Cuban". DNAInfo. Archived from the original on 10 March 2016. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  5. ↑ Khan, Majid (5 November 2015). "I Want To Draw A Cat For You Update – See What Happened After Shark Tank". Gazette Review. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
  6. ↑ "I've traded my Sharpies for an Apple Pencil! | I Want To Draw a Cat For You!". iwanttodrawacatforyou.com. Retrieved 2019-06-27.
  7. ↑ "I'm drawing cats on CAMEO now!". iwanttodrawacatforyou.com. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
  8. ↑ "Cameo - Cat Drawing Guy". cameo.com. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
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