At the height of the Great Recession, Kevin O’Leary met Mark Burnett for breakfast at a beachside hotel in Los Angeles.
The 71-year-old venture capitalist, known as Mr. Wonderful, had sold his educational software company to Mattel for $4.2 billion, and he had spent the last couple of years on a panel of investors on the Canadian series “Dragon’s Den.” Burnett, the reality TV titan behind “The Apprentice,” was looking to bring that same entrepreneurial format to American audiences with a new series called “Shark Tank.”
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“He said, ‘We’re looking for a real asshole, and you’re it,’” O’Leary recalls, sitting in
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