Damon John is an entrepreneur in every sense of the word. He's the CEO and founder of Fubu,

a celebrated global lifestyle brand and a pioneer in the fashion industry with over six billion

in product sales. He's also one of the sharks on the Emmy Award-winning TV show, Shark Tank.

His ability to build successful brands has made him a highly influential consultant and

motivational speaker.

In 2015, he was named by President Obama as a presidential ambassador for global entrepreneurship.

He's also the author of the New York Times bestseller, The Power of Broke.

I want to start off with, in the power of broke, you share that desperation can breed innovation.

So I want to go back to the early days in Hollis-Queen's.

From when I was researching you even more, you didn't know that you had dyslexia in school.

There's a little bit of struggle there, right?

Yeah, I didn't know.

I had dyslexia until I was probably about 35, because, you know, when, you know, at that time

prior to that, your communication was generally through paper and a, you know, teacher marks

it up as a zero, right?

Yeah.

But when these things called two-way pagers came out and I started communicating with people externally,

and they started going, you okay? I didn't know what they were talking about. But emails and all that stuff,

we started communicating externally and then people started saying, why are things backwards? You

don't make any sense. And, you know, so that's how I started to really find out about it.

So back when you were still in high school and figuring out what you wanted to be when

you grew up, was fashion a long-held dream or was that another entrepreneurial idea?

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