The Shark Tank Charlatan | 93
Scamfluencers
Wondery
4.1 • 7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Nate Holzapfel is a natural salesman. When he goes on the television show “Shark Tank” in 2012, he wows investors with his line of ratchet-style belts, which he claims are “like a giant zip tie for your pants.” His company takes off, but Nate still isn’t satisfied – he wants to live even larger. That’s when he decides to take on a much darker business venture: defrauding the most powerless people he can find.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, scamfluencer's fans, Sarah here. If you love the drama, deception, and mind-blowing |
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| 0:17.9 | today. A heads up, this episode contains descriptions of sexual violence, assault, and abuse. |
| 0:24.5 | Please listen with care. |
| 0:32.0 | Sachi, you've spent enough time in hotels, and for me, that's when I get super into Shark Tank marathons. |
| 0:39.2 | I need to know, how into Shark Tank are you? |
| 0:41.7 | I mean, I'm not into it, but as you know, two of the sharks routinely on Shark Tank are |
| 0:49.2 | Canadians. And so all Canadians are like automatically subscribed to a layer of shark tank that we do not want. |
| 0:58.2 | Well, today's scam is about a guy who got kind of big on Shark Tank. |
| 1:03.3 | Only for him, that was just the beginning of his very evil scamming. |
| 1:11.3 | It's October 4th, 2021, and Deanne Jansen is in her car in a parking lot near Provo, Utah. |
| 1:18.8 | Deanne is a social worker in her 50s. |
| 1:21.0 | She's tan with short gray hair, and she has plans to meet her boyfriend for lunch nearby |
| 1:25.4 | at their favorite date spot, Carl's Jr. |
| 1:29.2 | His name is Nate Holzafel, and he's an entrepreneur in his early 40s. He has a round face, |
| 1:34.9 | shaggy brown hair, and a graying goatee. They matched on Tinder just a few weeks ago, but it's |
| 1:40.1 | been a whirlwind romance. Nate has come on really strong to the point where Deanne finds it kind of off-putting. |
| 1:46.8 | And she doesn't like the fact that he's really into guns |
| 1:49.3 | and maintains a conservative onion-style website. |
| 1:52.9 | It publishes headlines like Black Liquorish Less Popular due to systemic racism. |
| 1:57.9 | Oh, and Deanne has noticed Nate has an unsettling habit of praising Hitler. I would also be |
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