Malibu's Mikke Pierson Pitches Disappearing House on Shark Tank

Malibu West resident Mikke Pierson is appearing on network television tonight in prime time. It's the ABC TV show Shark Tank.

Pierson is a business consultant, and he has been working for two years on a business called HiberTec homes. Tonight at 9, Pierson will explain the plan, which has real Malibu applications.

We interviewed him.

REPORTER: Would you please explain to the vast KBUU listening audience what your concept is?

PIERSON: So the concept here — and it's not my concept, it's Holden Force, the inventor's — is a house that actually disappears into a vault when a fire or tornado or some other such disaster comes. And hides it in a vault only to resurface after the disaster is gone.

REPORTER: Did you take it to ABC, or did they actually come and approach you?

PIERSON: They actually came and approached us. We had talked about it very little, but they had been a little bit in the trade press somewhere, I don't remember where. So they must've come across it somehow, but to be honest, I have no idea how. They came and asked us how to apply.

REPORTER: So no spoilers, but was it fun being on TV?

PIERSON: It actually had one of the most fun days I've had in a very long time. It was a long and intense day. I left that day with my jaw hurting from smiling. It was quite an experience — once in a lifetime.

REPORTER: So the question I guess everyone has is, did you get to meet Jimmy Kimmel?

PIERSON: Hah hah. Everyone has that question? I did not know that.

So the HiberTec concept: a house that lowers itself into a vault when a fire approaches. The house seals itself up. When the fire is gone, the house unfolds its protective covering and levitates back up to the surface.

You can watch Pierson make his pitch to the investors tonight at 9 on ABC7, or stream it later on Hulu.