If you're going to build something from nothing, you've got to know what really works.

I took a thousand dollar loan and built a five billion dollar business, and now I make smart investments in new businesses on Shark Tank. This is Barbara

Corcoran and you're listening to Business Unusual presented by On Deck Business Lines. You might be happy or sad to hear that we have what people

mistakenly call Mr Wonderful here with us today. Mr Wonderful, welcome.

Thank you Barbara and there's no mistake. I am truly, Mr. Wonderful, because it's true.

I got a few questions that you haven't been asked before. I'm dying of here.

Number one, what were you like as a kid?

Take me back to a little five-year-old Kevin. What were you like?

Well, I was very dyslexic. I had a lot of problems. Math and reading skills, if you're

dyslexic. I was failing school like crazy. My mother was very concerned. It was

very stressful for her and she was

getting divorced at the same time. So a lot of stress. And she found a woman named

Marjorie Gollick and Sam Rabinovich at that age, five to seven, that's how old I was,

they were doing experimental work with dyslexic kids. They had a gaggle of them, they had like 20 of them,

and they're trying some very experimental stuff in a special

school and for me it worked and so I'm very thankful for her but that those are very

tough times because when you're falling behind in math and reading as you can imagine.

The ego goes with it.

Yes. And what Rabinovich and Garlic said to the class of 20 is you're all here

because you're actually have superpowers and we have to separate you from the

general population because you're so powerful it was really great great

position it was a great idea really you know who else can read backwards upside down in a

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