Shark Tank's 'Mr. Wonderful' -- Kevin O'Leary
Boss Files with Poppy Harlow
CNN
4.6 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2017
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In this episode of Boss Files, Kevin O'Leary, he's better known as Mr. Wonderful from the ABC hit show Shark Tank. |
| 0:08.8 | Now the entrepreneur is squarely focused on one thing, returns. |
| 0:13.7 | So where does he find most of those returns coming from these days? |
| 0:17.8 | Women run businesses. |
| 0:19.6 | I sat down with him in March in New York to ask him about that, |
| 0:23.2 | and also to find out if he has always been supportive enough of women in business. |
| 0:28.9 | They call you Mr. Wonderful. That's because it's true. Why are you so wonderful? You know, I just |
| 0:33.4 | tell the truth all the time. Oh, really? That's what matters. And I think in business, you have to |
| 0:37.5 | think about that a little bit because business is different than anything else. It's binary. It's |
| 0:41.3 | black and white. So if you think about the truth, it's the best way to go. Be honest. Even |
| 0:47.3 | though it brings up emotional issues sometimes, I'd rather tell somebody they have a bad idea |
| 0:51.7 | and they're wasting their money when it's a truth. Where does the name come from? |
| 0:56.0 | We think it came from early in season one when Barbara, who I worked with as you know, was beside me on Shark Tank, |
| 1:05.0 | was being very sarcastic and I made an offer to somebody and said, well I'll buy 51% of the company because I want control. |
| 1:11.8 | And she said, isn't he just Mr. Wonderful? And I thought, yes, he is. And it's, you know, |
| 1:17.4 | it's one of those things that just stuck. I'm amazed because I show up in hotels now and they |
| 1:21.7 | don't know my name. They just call me Mr. Wonderful. Is the Kevin O'Leary that is sitting with me |
| 1:26.4 | now the same one as on TV? |
| 1:29.3 | Because your edges seem a little softer right now. |
| 1:31.3 | No, I do, when it comes to business, that's me. |
| 1:34.3 | I really am binary that way. |
| 1:36.3 | I think it's important to deal with the facts in business, because, you know, |
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