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Mark Barrocas

Chief Executive Officer and Director, SharkNinja, Inc.

Search every verified Mark Barrocas interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. On SharkNinja's Q2 2026 earnings call, CEO Mark Barrocas reported that the company delivered its 13th consecutive quarter of double-digit net sales growth, accelerating to over 22% year-over-year growth, which he described as the fastest growth rate since Q4 2024. He also stated that gross profit rose 21.5%, and he addressed investor skepticism about the durability of the company's growth, attributing it to what he called the size and strength of its core business. Barrocas also discussed the company's tariff refund process, noting that SharkNinja submitted refund claims of approximately $247.1 million through US Customs and Border Protection in July 2026, which were accepted, with the benefit expected to be recognized in the third quarter of 2026. Regarding product development, he mentioned recent launches including the Blast Boss and the crispy microwave, and indicated that the company plans to launch a new subcategory in the third quarter, maintaining a pace of at least two new subcategories per year. He further stated that enhanced software capabilities would appear in some products in the second half of 2026, and that the impact of AI and the "jailbreak" initiative on product development would become more visible in 2027.

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“The impact of the tariffs is going to be hundreds of millions of dollars on our business. And we have a choice right now. We could say, 'Well, this will never stick and who knows what happens and you know, woe is me.' I said, 'But I want to shut down the entire business and in eight days I want to mitigate the total impact of the tariff.' ... And we mitigated 93% of the impact of tariffs by the following Friday.”

“Patrick, at the time the entire atome ice cream market in the United States was $40 million. And I remember a major retailer telling us, "Well, if you go into this market and even if you take 50% of the market, you're only going to have a $20 million business. I mean, why would you be even be interested in this?" And the idea was is because we think at Shark Ninja, we can enlarge the size of the market. We can get so”

“On February 1st, you know, there were incremental tariffs that came out. We got a group together of about 60 people in the company. We had them call in sick for three days and at the end of those three days they came up with 1,500 ideas of how to mitigate those tariff impacts on the business.”

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