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Landon McKinnis

Landon McKinnis

Entrepreneur & Licensed Realtor, Go Nutz
The Sharks laughed when Landon McKinnis walked out. Ninety seconds later, three of them were bidding against each other.
 
He's the founder and inventor of Go Nutz, a patented grooming device he designed himself and built into a national brand as a one-man operation out of Kenosha, Wisconsin. A billion-dollar incumbent in the category. No easy way to advertise it. A product most people won't say out loud. He took it to primetime network television anyway and made six of the most powerful investors in America stop laughing. Mark Cuban made an offer. Barbara Corcoran made an offer. Cuban and Daymond John joined forces to close it. The press called his presentation a feeding frenzy.
 
That didn't happen by accident. It happened on reps. For years the answer was no — from investors, from manufacturers, from every door he could get a foot into. So he engineered the product himself, took two U.S. patents on it, put a quarter million dollars of his own money behind it, and rehearsed the pitch until it was muscle. When the one shot came, he was the most prepared person in the building.
That's what he teaches. Not confidence — mechanics. Landon breaks a pitch into three parts he learned the hard way: the Hollywood part that earns you attention, the business part that earns you belief, and the follow-up part that earns you the money. Most people are only good at one. He'll show you which one you're missing.
 
An inventor, licensed Realtor, and lifelong entrepreneur, Landon speaks to founders, investors, and leadership teams about pitching under pressure, winning a room that starts out doubtful, and the discipline of continuing after the plan dies. He speaks with the tape running — the rejections, the practiced reps, and the exact moment a skeptical room turns.
 
Audiences don't leave inspired. They leave able to stand up, in ninety seconds, and say why anyone should bet on them.
 
Featured on ABC's Shark Tank, NBC, and across the Lee Enterprises newspaper network.
Recent stages include InsureTech Connect at Mandalay Bay, Pitch The Pros, the Mayor's Youth Commission Annual Award Dinner, and the Kenosha Innovation Neighborhood's Pitch Perfect and KICback Social.

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