SharkTank

Shark Tank[b] is an American business reality television series that premiered on August 9, 2009, on ABC.[2] The show is the American franchise of the international format Dragons' Den, a British TV series, which itself is a remake of the Japanese TV show The Tigers of Money. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark_Tank

starring (the sharks)

  • Kevin O'Leary: O'Leary's primary source of wealth came from the sale of SoftKey International to Mattel in 1999 for $4.2 billion. By 1993, had become a major consolidator in the educational software market after acquiring rival companies such as WordStar and Spinnaker Software. In 1995, after acquiring The Learning Company (TLC) for $606 million, Softkey adopted the TLC name. In 1999 TLC was bought by Mattel for $4.2 billion. Following a drop in sales and earnings for Mattel, O'Leary departed the company. Mattel executives and O'Leary were sued by Mattel shareholders for misleading investors about the health of TLC. O’Leary had launched his mutual funds with great fanfare back in 2008... O’Leary was not even licensed to manage or invest other people’s money. Instead, he hired Connor O’Brien, a former Wall Street investment banker, to run O’Leary Funds... "The majority of the funds performed poorly for an extended period of time and the majority of (Bay Street) brokers refused to sell any new funds,” says Mark McQueen, CEO of Wellington Financial.
  • Mark Cuban
  • Robert Herjavec: founded BRAK Systems, a Canadian integrator of Internet security software, and sold it to AT&T Canada (now Allstream Inc.) in 2000 for $30.2 million
  • Lori Greiner: She is known for her QVC show Clever & Unique Creations (2000–present) for which she has been called the "Queen of QVC"... She has hundreds of inventions and holds over 120 patents. She is the president and founder of For Your Ease Only, Inc...
  • Daymond John: He is the founder, president, and chief executive officer of FUBU... In 2003, FUBU mostly withdrew from the U.S. market, concentrating its efforts in Saudi Arabia, China, Korea, Japan and South Africa, while acquiring other apparel brands. In 2009, the company's annual revenue was around $200 million. (Since it's private, there's no reliable current numbers.)
  • Barbara Corcoran: She founded the Corcoran Group (in 1980), a real estate brokerage in New York City, which she sold to NRT for $66 million in 2001 and shortly thereafter exited the company.

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