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Welcome back to another episode of Trading Secrets and today we are honored.

We are discussing all things.

We're talking business, money and media with what some would call the shark of all sharks.

Now, his nickname may be a little contrary to his TV tone.

They call him the one and only Mr. Wonderful.

And so today I'm jumping in the shark cage with a brutally honest and probably the most aggressive

negotiator on Shark Tank, Mr. Kevin O'Leary. One thing I think is kind of important is that we

talk a little bit about where Kevin came from. Now I talked to him in the episode that we're

going to open the bell real quick here. I talked to him about how we got on Shark Tank and when

he made his TV debut and we get in the weeds about the money behind it, etc.

But what's interesting is that Kevin actually co-founded this company called SoftKey Software

Products. And it's his tech company. And what they did is they sold software that was geared

towards education. So family, youth, children, education, entertainment. And then their strategy

was to acquire several rival companies and then change its name to the learning company,

which inevitably was the key to Kevin's success. Now he's had so much success. It's incredible,

the shit he's done. But he was acquired by that little company called Mattel. Remember Mattel?

You know, every game you had as a kid said Mattel. So in 1999, 1999 they were acquired.

That's what made O'Leary a multi-multimillionaire. And so Mattel acquired SoftKey Products,

which then of course we just established became the learning company for $4.2 billion

freaking dollars. Now his projects from there are endless. That's a cool thing about Kevin.

He said he made his millions. He didn't stop. He just kept going and going. And we get into

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