And you know the unwritten rule of television is that whatever is spoken in the green room is off the record. That’s 20 to 25 really interesting people-politicians, CEOs, CFOs, authors, all kinds of analysts. We have four to five guests on, five nights a week. “The work I do with Amanda Lang, for example. He says that TV and investing are actually symbiotic.
O’Leary made a fortune selling software concern the Learning Company to Mattel in 1999, and he is now the head of O’Leary Funds, a billion-dollar investment fund. You might be forgiven for wondering whether O’Leary is really a business mogul or simply plays one on TV. O’Leary also faces off with Amanda Lang on CBC News Network’s The Lang & O’Leary Exchange, a combination business news/debate program. “I’ll give you $100,000 to burst into flames,” he told one Dragons’ Den candidate. While none of O’Leary’s fellow TV tycoons come off as exactly warm and fuzzy, O’Leary is in a vituperative class by himself. Aside from Dragons’ Den, the sixth season of which launches in October, O’Leary co-stars on Mark Burnett’s Shark Tank, the American version of the show that sees hopeful business people pitching to a panel of wealthy investors. “Your valuation is insane!” O’Leary howls at a parade of hapless entrepreneurs who cower on the set of the hit CBC reality series. O’Leary has no problem identifying the real demons that plague his current life: high taxes, government regulation, and-woe to them-fools who seek investment with no record of sales.
“He was just another officer,” O’Leary says now. In 1963, while living in Cambodia for a year with his stepfather, he had the dubious honour of meeting future Cambodian mass murderer Pol Pot, then a military assistant to Prince Sihanouk, at a reception. Secondly, he knows who the real bad guys in this world are. First off, the balding bulldog of CBC Television’s Dragons’ Den does not admit that villainy is his business. Don’t try comparing Kevin O’Leary to the great villains of this world.
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