The sharks often find weaknesses and faults in an entrepreneur's product, business model or valuation of their company. The show features a panel of investors called 'sharks,' who decide whether to invest as entrepreneurs make business presentations on their company or product.
In 2012–13, it won Outstanding Reality Program. The series has been a ratings success in its time slot, winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Structured Reality Program four times (2014–2017) in the first four years of that category's existence.
It shows entrepreneurs making business presentations to a panel of five venture capitalists ( investors in start-ups) called 'sharks' on the program, who decide whether to invest in their companies. The show is the American franchise of the international format Dragons' Den, a Japanese TV series. Shark Tank is an American business reality television series that premiered on August 9, 2009, on ABC.