#582 How Gene Simmons Started as a Small Business Owner and Became #1

Main Street Business

Mark J Kohler and Mat Sorensen

Tax Reform, Entrepreneurship, Business, Irs Updates, Tax Tips, Legal Compliance, Business Structure, Tax Prep, Accounting, Tax Strategies, Management, Financial Reporting, Estate Planning

2.4 • 584 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Gene Simmons joins us for an unforgettable masterclass on business, life philosophy, and how KISS built a billion-dollar brand through strategic thinking and trademark protection. • The precious nature of time and why "you will never get this day back" • Why the "get rich slow scheme" is more reliable than get-rich-quick fantasies • How KISS became the only band whose faces are trademarked like Disney characters • The recent billion-dollar sale of KISS to Pop House company • Coming from humb...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Main Street Business Podcast with your distinguished hosts, Mark J. Kohler and Matt Sorensen. Both are best-selling authors and have over 25 years of industry experience with 10,000 client consultations, making them the leading tax and legal experts in the nation. Together, they'll unpack the most complex tax, legal, and financial strategies, crucial for saving more, stressing less,
0:22.2	and building generational wealth.
0:24.6	Today, they're your personal advisors, ready to break it down for you and make the tax and legal
0:30.4	game easier than ever.
0:32.1	Here is Mark and Matt.
0:34.1	You will never get this day back, and the question is, what are you going to do with that?
0:38.8	Can't just sit around and let life pass you by. Everybody wants to get rich, quick scheme, and you've got to know what you want. You've got to have a vision. You've got to be focused.
0:47.9	It's a business, and you want to go where the money is. Carl Icon, who's major major takeover, unfriendly takeover guy,
0:54.2	what do is he would fire lots of people
0:56.2	and the company would turn around immediately
0:58.1	and be in profit.
0:59.3	When you started,
1:00.2	did you even envision the fact
1:01.8	that that makeup when you were putting it on
1:03.5	would have its own value?
1:04.8	You specifically know,
1:06.9	but generally, yes,
1:08.4	and we just sold Kiss,
1:10.6	the band for a billion.
1:18.3	Welcome to the Main Street Business Podcast.
1:20.6	I'm here with the infamous Gene Simmons.
1:23.0	He just gave us a master class at our Tax and Legal 360.
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