Born from Real Frustration

It all started one frigid, -22° night in Showshoe, West Virginia, when inventor Mike Beyrodt, a mechanical engineering student at Old Dominion University, was camping with his friends when they struggled with a common problem: they couldn’t get a fire started.  The snow, wind, and extreme cold made lighting a fire nearly impossible. Mike joked that “there should be an app for that." Mike imagined a faster, easier way to start a fire - something as simple as pushing a button (or pulling a string). Months of prototypes and over 100 iterations later, Pull Start Fire was born.  That night lit a little spark in Mike’s mind. Maybe there actually *was* a better way. Something that would easily start a fire with frozen or wet wood, in any weather. Something that made starting a fire as fast and easy as pushing a button (or pulling a string). So in his parents' garage, he set out to design the world’s fastest, easiest, most reliable way to start a fire.  After many months and over 100 iterations, he landed on the final design, which is now The Pull Start Fire fire starter.