yeah , lol @ looking at barbara for anything ...

kind of felt bad for the "american" guy at the end , but he was kind of shortsighted for not considering offshoring ...he could have probably created more jobs in the long run if he lowered his manufacturing overhead overseas .

$3.8B so that is why I estimated his net worth as being much higher. That was over ten years ago and he makes it sound like he owned most of it. He did pretty well on a few smaller things since then. He is pretty secretive about it which made me think it would be lower than people would think but I would never guess $300M low.

At one point he made a comment to Robert on the Dragon's Den that implied he was worth at least 10-20x Robert's net worth.

Yeah, he sold the company for that much but it's not like he had 100% ownership. Robert's net worth is about $100M. These guys are doing quite well, but aren't even in the same ballpark as Cuban.

It was funny how the guy tried to get all sappy with Robert about "Made in 'Merica", and him being Canadian. Even funnier when Robert almost pretended to not be Canadian and talked about his father coming to "America", which is factually accurate but misleading.

Didn't Kevin say he had 100% of the business he sold for $3B in one of the past episodes

the pickup guy was just hiding his ignorance, i know he meant well but you know behind closed doors he says stuff like "im not about to have some "insert racial slur here" make my product! god bless america!"

damn, i didn't think barbara was a billionaire, she's awesome. anyways, to me it seems like this season the sharks are way more adversarial and lecture-y than last season. it's kind of annoying.

is cuban a fixture now or will they be having other guest sharks? does anyone know?

pretty sure Cuban is a fixture for this season. He is easily my favorite guy on there.

cuban makes the show.

I just read Kevin's book... I'd estimate his net worth to be $150-250 million. There is just no way he owned more than 10% of the company he eventually sold to Mattel! The book talks about the companies journey in great detail - when the company started out and only had a small handful of employees he was desperate as **** for money (even borrowed $10k from his mom at one point so he could make payroll), and there is no way investors were sinking money into it unless they were getting the lions share of ownership. The company expanded primarily by buying other companies, as opposed to natural growth, which would have diluted Kevins ownership even more each time (he would own a smaller % of a larger company after each acquisition), and by the time the company was sold for almost $4b Kevin probably made about $300-350 billion pre-tax. Mattel quickly dumped his ass after they bought his company (the company turned out to be a lemon, and Mattel sued Kevin), and he then started working for BNN, and eventually got picked up by the CBC for Land & O'Leary exchange and then Dragons Den. This significant media exposure helped him build a valuable brand around himself, and now he is the face of a basket of mutual funds called "O'leary Funds" which I'm sure is making him bank (he talks as if he is the guy leading the investment team, but really he's just marketing the funds and promoting them as play on dividend paying stocks). I would imagine Kevin is also getting paid pretty well from Shark Tank too, but I'm not an expert on US TV (Canadian TV pays **** lol)

I'm shocked she's worth that much, she seems cheap as hell and seemed to be only a token panelist since she never does anything unless there is a female selling herself with a sob story.

I think you mean $300-350 Million pretax.
His show is called the Lang & O'leary Exchange.
Amanda Lang and Kevin O'leary.

I watch it all the time and it is like watching beauty and the beast..
or Simon Cowell and Paula Abdul after they have to listen to some out of tune singer and then give their opinion.

Amanda usually says.. this company is having problems because of xyz..
Kevin usually shoots back with ... "they should be fired.. I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole, if they think they are going to abc.. they are crazy."

I would doubt that is worth 1.5 billion. she sold her company the corcoran group for $66 million. I'm sure she's worth a lot more than that but 1.5 billion is unlikely. That being said, I don't think she's a token panelist. She's tenacious and completely self made -- in NYC real estate she's a legend.

Yeah, actually in season 1 Barabara made a lot of big deals so she's def not cheap. Kevin actually comes off as the nitiest, fwiw. Even Daymond gambles from time to time.

Cuban for sure makes the show, but (maybe surprisingly) my wife really doesn't like him. She hated the way he shut down and "taught a lesson" to the sales guy. Would be interesting to focus group and see if women like his style. I think he's great (as do, it seems, most of the other posters) but it might not be unanimous.

I think Robert's awesome too. He's definitely the biggest gentleman on the show.

Ps, I really like the cat guy. I wouldve bought at a $40k valuation.

Ezra

haha, when I went out w/my wife today, randomly getting out of the car she busted out:

"I want to draw a cat for you.... I want to draw a cat for you"

... absurd ;-p

Kevin specifically structures his offers so that they won't be accepted or rather knowing that they won't be. No other shark/dragon does this on the 3 series that I am familiar with: UK, Canada, USA.

Draw your own conclusions.

VC gets 1 of 10 projects cash positive 20 years ago, today it's 1 in every 25. Even on shartank 2 out of 3 projects don't pass do diligence after the handshake, and this is even before they start investing....

so can't blame Kevin....

statistically that guy with "I want to draw a cat for you" is a investment nightmare....

Is there a post-Shark Tank web site that follows what happened to these people, 3, 6, 12 months after?

On Dragon's Den they do give you updates every so often but usually only the feel good stories about success.

The cat guy looks like he already has expanded into songwriting ($99.95 each) with someone else writing the songs. 1500 cats already drawn. As this fad wears out, he probably will be able to expand into other fads quickly and do fairly well for himself.

I can't figure out where the 1.5 billion came from either. The Corcoran group apparently published a newsletter. She likely owned property outside of that business, but I still don't see how that would get her to 1.5 billion.

Either you missed my point or I missed yours.

NYC real estate is really expensive. If you got in early enough on it, leveraged, and waited a while, it's not that hard to come by.

The business was a newsletter and also it appears to be realtors or something of the same. My guess is she must have had her own property on the side.

just thought up a new invention for Cuban to invest in. it's a diet plan -- we launch with a book and an app. It's just disgusting, unsettling images. So next time you want to snack like a fatty, you open your book/app, and look at open wounds, vomit, crap, tumors etc. and lose your appetite.

someone create it. We'll split 70% of the company and sell the other 30% to Cuban for $50k. who's down?

Instead of nasty images, make it a game with point. People love points more than they love food.

To be fair, the cat guy had shown the ability to execute his idea in a cash flow positive way. While his idea is stupid, he was still able to make money off of his idea. Cuban's investment isn't likely to get a huge return, but it's unlikely that he doesn't come out having made money.

he wants to control the process, and I don't blame him - most of those people know nothing about business,....so 51%+, or get compensation on failed investments in VC so a big percentage. similar a bank would adjust interest rates based on risk of general defaults.

also since he invests 5% portfolio on vc there is a constrain on how much risk he would take with that money...

all of that calculations are derived from number of vc project that go cash positive