Kevin O'Leary

The story's legendary.

I mean, every year it got canceled.

Everybody hated us.

But Willow Payne was married to Iger, and I'd met her way back in the ABC days.

And she was raising kids with Iger, and they loved the show.

And so every time he'd come home saying, oh, we whacked those guys on Shark Tank, she'd say, no, no, no.

We're not whacking Shark Tank.

Our kids like it.

Other families like it.

It's the only thing on TV that doesn't have everybody naked screaming about sex.

And so it became a family hit.

And in the fourth year, it just went geometric.

I mean, poo-poo happened, you know?

No, we did that.

It was called Beyond the Tank right into the poop shoot.

That's what happened.

Well, I think the reason it works is that we don't know, you don't know what's going to walk through those doors.

It's the essence of the American dream.

I mean, the idea that you can come up with a product or service that solves a problem and become a multimillionaire, which we've done countless times in 17 years.

We've sold billions of dollars worth of product.