Kevin O'Leary
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
We kill them with crappy food.
Yes, it's Milton Rockwell, richest man in America in 1952.
Safdie called me and said, look... This is Josh Safdie, who... Yeah, Josh, the director, and Ronnie Bronstein's the writer.
You know, 20 years earlier at the Shutter's Hotel, which is Santa Monica, I got a call from Mark Burnett, and he was casting for Shark Tank, and I was working on a show in England.
He said, you've got to come over and have breakfast with me.
I'm casting this new show called Shark Tank, and I'm looking for a real a-hole, and you're it.
That's what Mark Brunette said about you.
And now, 20 years later, I'm hearing the same story from Safia, looking for the a-hole, and you're it.
And I'm starting to think this a-hole thing's really working.
And Josh said, he went beyond and he said, I want the first frame to tell everybody that's the a-hole.
Without me even saying anything, I was honored.
I thought, my goodness.
And I said to him, maybe I should embrace this a-hole.
Maybe I should be the best a-hole I can be.
Wake up in the morning and be proud of my a-holeness.
Because I know with certainty there's light at the end of the sphincter.
I was going to go pig.