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Tom Talks

Daymond John | Tom Talks 17

Tom Talks

YMH Studios

Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Comedy

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

On today's Tom Talks, CEO of FUBU and Shark Tank personality, Daymond John stops by the studio. To start things off, Daymond talks about starting FUBU while working at Red Lobster, growing up in Queens, NY and how we grew his company to the international success it is today. Then, Daymond tells Tom about working with LL Cool J, shooting the 13th season of Shark Tank and how he analyzes people's pitches on the show. Lastly, Daymond reveals a time when he was pressured by the Yakuza as well as a scary confrontation with Mike Tyson.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're back. I'm back and I'm excited. I'm excited that you're back. I should have said

0:06.7

hi. I saw you at the fights. Yeah, but you were wearing an awesome suit and you were talking

0:11.2

to people and I was like, maybe he's fucking buying a casino. No, I'm just talking. So I didn't stop.

0:17.9

No, I'm sorry. I'm probably just relaxing and you know. Yeah. It was quite the event. I mean,

0:24.4

I'm excited to be out of Vegas though. You know, you know, Vegas is kind of, you got that

0:27.9

love hate relationships kind of disgusting, but it's kind of great. Yeah, but I was actually out

0:32.6

and they opened up the lilas that night and I was just excited. I was just excited to see people.

0:37.5

You know, I was I felt the same way. I was I was at the lilas the night before for a big party.

0:42.4

It was a blast and had a great time. I felt it felt like the before times. Yeah, you know,

0:47.5

I felt like the before times like everything is happening again. It felt good. It felt good.

0:52.4

It felt good. Thank you for coming. I know that we're talking about founding Fubu.

0:58.8

So it's a it's an audible an audio documentary. Right. It's an audible original. It's

1:04.8

there is no book on it prior or a book that exists. This was purely created for audible.

1:10.8

It is the story of how I founded Fubu with my partners, but also the good, the bad, the ugly,

1:17.0

you know, you got you got $300 million running through a company a year with a bunch of young

1:24.1

African-American kids and then a bunch of Jewish guys and a bunch of Asian people and

1:29.5

Jews women too. And the innovation, the the the the having more in common than a part and then

1:37.4

the trying to go world domination, but then you got the bad guys and bad girls from the streets,

1:42.4

all a lot of stuff that I've never shared before. It's a I mean, it's like a movie. It's like a drama.

1:47.0

It is. And I live for these stories, especially I mean, I've always been drawn to business stories.

1:52.8

I love entrepreneurial stories where people take a risk, like take a shot. You know, it's there's

1:58.4

a parallel to like trying to make it in show business. I'm going to try to be an actor or a

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