"I grew up in Montreal and Ottawa and received my MBA in 1980. My second business, the software company SoftKey, became successful enough to acquire the educational software company The Learning Company in 1995. Four years later, I sold it to Mattel for $4.2 billion. I became a venture capitalist, mutual fund manager, and did some Canadian TV, starring on "Dragon's Den," a reality series where entrepreneurs pitched ideas to a panel of investors."
"A few years later, Mark Burnett took me to lunch, as he wanted me to be one of the investors in a US version of "Dragon's Den," called "Shark Tank." "I'm looking for a real asshole, and you're it," he told me. The rest is history. I'm also acting for the first time, playing a business tycoon named Milton Rockwell in the Timothée Chalamet movie "Marty Supreme," which is in theaters on Christmas Day."
Kevin O'Leary grew up in Montreal and Ottawa and received his MBA in 1980. He built the software company SoftKey, acquired The Learning Company in 1995, and sold the combined business to Mattel for $4.2 billion in 1999. He moved into venture capital, mutual fund management, and television, appearing on Dragon's Den and later joining Shark Tank after recruitment by Mark Burnett. He is acting for the first time as Milton Rockwell in Marty Supreme, released on Christmas Day. His daily routine begins at 5 a.m., includes monitoring Asian and European market feeds, and a roughly 12-mile bike ride each morning.
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