The path to Shark Buddies started when I was 11 years old.
It was the summer way back in 1979. It was raining outside, so I was swimming laps indoors that day.
The Speedo swim goggles I was wearing kept leaking and fogging up. But this was nothing new though, they always did. And it didn’t matter which brand, they were all basically the same back then.
After about the 10th lap of fogging and leaking I had finally had to stop. I stopped mid-lap and tossed those Speedos up onto the pool deck.
Back to swimming laps I went. Getting it done with my eyes closed half the time. Checking every once and a while for the wall.
Yes, you guessed it, I looked up too late and ran right into the concrete wall. Not so bright.
Dazed and confused, I got out of the pool, bloody-faced and now having to cut my swim short to go get a few stitches at the doctor.
I cursed those goggles.
I knew there must be a better way.
Fast forward 35 years...
Sitting by the pool one day, I noticed that my kids were struggling with the same leaky, foggy goggles that I did as a kid. I decided right then, that we were going on a mission to solve this problem.
Jason Duncan
Shark Buddies, Founder
Now was the time.
I decided it was time to do something about this problem. The timing was right as well; I was winding down my software business, and needed a new project.
But I didn’t want to create another business where it was me isolated from my family. I wanted to create a business that would involve my boys too, a business where we could go on the entrepreneurial adventure together.
In May of 2017, we started down the road of designing the world’s best kids swimming goggles, Shark Buddies.
Picking away at it, day by day, we slowly began to see our product coming to life.
2 years later, we had a completed product.
The Original Shark Buddies and Shark Case.
But the work is never done, and we are only just beginning.
Shark Buddies is different because we are looking at goggles from the perspective of a child. Our point of view is completely different. We aren’t going to be just another faceless, corporate swim brand with goggles that leak and fog. We are going to make the best kids swimming goggles in the world.