MI019: Behind the Scenes of Shark Tank & the Art of an Investor Pitch with Matt Higgins (Entrepreneurship Podcast)
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4.6 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to TIP. On today's show, I sit down with Matt Higgins to discuss Shark Tank, |
| 0:06.6 | venture capital, and pitching your business to investors. Matt is a shark on ABC's hit TV show, |
| 0:12.5 | Shark Tank, the CEO and co-founder of RSE Ventures, vice chairman of the NFL's Miami Dolphins, |
| 0:19.8 | and he has co-founded VaynerRSE with Gary Vaynerchuk. |
| 0:24.0 | Matt has also previously been the executive vice president of the NFL's New York Jets and chief |
| 0:29.5 | operating officer of Lower Manhattan's Development Corporation. |
| 0:34.3 | You're listening to Millennial Investing by the Investors Podcast Network, where your host, Robert Leonard, |
| 0:40.7 | interview successful entrepreneurs, business leaders, and investors to help educate and inspire |
| 0:46.2 | the millennial generation. |
| 0:58.3 | Welcome to today's show. |
| 1:07.8 | As always, I'm your host, Robert Leonard, and I'm very excited to have Matt Higgins from RSC Ventures and ABC's hit TV show, Shark Tank, here with me today. |
| 1:09.2 | Welcome to the show, Matt. |
| 1:12.5 | Thank you for having me. I'd like to start our conversation by talking about your background and your story. I personally find it incredibly |
| 1:17.9 | motivating and inspiring, and I'm sure the audience will as well. So please talk to us about your |
| 1:23.5 | journey from how you got started to where you are today. A big part of my background and central part of my history that's shaped to I am today is |
| 1:32.0 | I grew up dirt poor, no other way to describe it, born to a single mom in Queens, New York. |
| 1:38.1 | And we just struggled a lot in those early years. |
| 1:41.5 | My mother was incredibly smart and went to college as an adult. |
| 1:45.2 | If I didn't work hard, things were going to end poorly. So my career started inauspiciously |
| 1:50.1 | selling flowers on street corners and selling handbags at flea markets and basically, |
| 1:55.8 | like a lot of kids out there who grow up poor, just doing anything to make a dollar. |
| 1:59.6 | And when I was 16 years all I had to |
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