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Shark Tank’s Daymond John To Fashion Entrepreneurs: Take Off Your Blinders | Forbes

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🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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FUBU co-founder Daymond John joins “Forbes Talks” to discuss his upcoming Black Entrepreneurs Day in Harlem. The Shark Tank co-host also addresses why some deals never close post-airing of ABC network's hit reality show, the future of retail, and explains why entrepreneurs should be more open to listening to community voices as they build companies. Stay Connected Forbes newsletters: https://newsletters.editorial.forbes.com Forbes on Facebook: http://fb.com/forbes Forbes Video on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/forbes Forbes Video on Instagram: http://instagram.com/forbes More From Forbes: http://forbes.com Forbes covers the intersection of entrepreneurship, wealth, technology, business and lifestyle with a focus on people and success. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

For us by us, you know what is Fubu and in black fashion and culture there's no way you can tell the story without

0:06.8

Fubu and all the history and impact that it's had throughout 50 years of hip-hop.

0:12.2

Hello everyone this is Jabra,

0:14.0

young senior writer and editor here at Forbes.

0:16.0

And in a minute, I'll be talking to Daymond John,

0:18.0

one of the co-founder of Fubu,

0:21.0

an iconic clothing line, L.L. Koojay helped put it on a map and again 50 years

0:26.4

celebration of hip-hop love to talk shop with Dayman John how he became an

0:31.5

entrepreneur coming out of Queens.

0:33.4

Fourth Black Entrepreneurs Day coming up in Harlem

0:36.7

and Fubu, right?

0:37.8

Discussing Fubu in over $5 billion in retail sales

0:41.8

that that company has done throughout the course of his history,

0:44.0

Damon John, right now.

0:46.0

Fourth annual Black Entrepreneurs Day is coming up at the Apollo Theater in Harlem.

0:55.0

Michelle E-banks definitely, new CEO at the Apollo definitely a great job as he's doing so far.

1:01.0

So tell me in 2020 that's when you kind of came up with this concept where is

1:05.4

it at now again you four years in yeah what have you learned about black

1:09.1

entrepreneurs that? Well I learned a lot you you know, you know, I started four years ago when we were all home watching

1:16.8

kids burn businesses instead of build them.

1:19.8

I figure, you know what, I want to do what I can do to give them the information and the

1:24.8

inspiration that you know that they need I think to educate them on how to

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