5 Facts About VibeRide From Shark Tank

Social media was the focus of VibeRide founder Charlie Cannon's work for J Skis, and he credits his personal social media acumen for the rapid growth of EXO Drones. It's hardly surprising, then, that social media is also a major pillar of VibeRide's business model.

Reflecting its three founders' young ages, TikTok and YouTube are the two platforms VibeRide most actively utilize. On TikTok, the company's following totals just over 10,000 users. Its videos amass view counts in the tens of thousands regularly, with some particularly viral clips netting view counts in the millions. Meanwhile, more than 12,000 users subscribe to the VibeRide YouTube channel, which produces Gen Z-friendly Shorts more often than full-length videos. A few of those Shorts have even surpassed 1 million views.

One of the company's marquee social media achievements is a spotlight on Braille Skateboarding, a popular YouTube channel with more than 5 million subscribers. It's clear, then, that VibeRide's appearance on "Shark Tank" within a year of its founding is at least partially the result of its growth. That growth, as the stats suggest, was possible thanks to a successful social media push and the rapid exposure that followed