42: Behind the Scenes at “Shark Tank” With Mike Stephens, Our Secret Weapon

Business Unusual with Barbara Corcoran

Barbara Corcoran

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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We give you the down and dirty on “Shark Tank” as Mike, my young hunky business manager, spills the beans on what really goes on behind the scenes. Everything you wanted to know but didn’t know how to ask. Got a business question you want to ask me? Tweet it @BarbaraCorcoran and I may just answer it on a future episode! Follow Business Unusual with Barbara Corcoran on iHeartRadio, or subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. This episode of Business Unusual with Barbara Corcoran is presented by On Deck Business Loans (http://www.ondeck.com/barbara).

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0:00.0	If you're going to build something from nothing, you've got to know what really works.
0:07.0	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
0:15.7	Corcoran and you're listening to Business Unusual. So I'm sitting here today
0:20.6	with one of my most favorite people in the whole world, and I'm telling
0:24.7	him this in hopes that he doesn't hit me up for another race.
0:28.1	It's Mike Stevens in my office, and Mike is actually the guy behind all the entrepreneurs that I invested in Shark Tank.
0:37.0	Lots of people think I'm doing the heavy lifting, working with an entrepreneur day in and day out.
0:42.0	I work with my entrepreneurs, no doubt.
0:44.1	Number one, I invest in them, that counts for a lot. But who's the guy that makes sure that the
0:49.2	entrepreneurs we get our hands on wind up being as successful as they possibly can be.
0:55.5	It's Mike Stephen.
0:56.6	Say hi Mike.
0:57.8	How you doing Barb?
0:58.8	I'm doing okay, Mike, as you well know, because we sit in the same office together, work every day together, can finish
1:05.9	each other's sentences, know each other's jokes.
1:09.4	I just wish you were about 40 years older, I would married you no doubt my mind but instead I
1:13.9	got my old husband Bill. I don't tell Bill. We don't tell Bill a lot of stuff.
1:18.6	So Mike I'm asked all the time by other business people, what was your background?
1:23.2	How does he know to run those businesses?
1:25.0	Did he have a special education?
1:27.4	My answer usually is, I don't think so.
1:30.0	He graduated from Columbia undergraduate school
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