Terrence Thomas Kevin O'Leary (born July 9, 1954), sometimes called Mr. Wonderful or Maple Man, is a Canadian businessman, investor, journalist, and television personality. From 2004 to 2014, he appeared on various Canadian television shows, including the business news programs ''SqueezePlay'' and ''
The Lang and O'Leary Exchange'', as well as the Canadian
reality television
Reality television is a genre of television programming that documents purportedly unscripted real-life situations, often starring unfamiliar people rather than professional actors. Reality television emerged as a distinct genre in the early 19 ...
shows ''
Dragons' Den'' and ''
Redemption Inc.
''Redemption Inc.'' (also known as ''Redemption Inc. with Kevin O'Leary'') is a nine-part Canadian reality TV game show hosted by business commentator Kevin O'Leary, broadcast on CBC, produced by Proper Television. The show stars 10 ex-cons, f ...
''
In 2008, he appeared on
Discovery Channel
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's ''
Project Earth''. Since 2009, he has appeared on ''
Shark Tank
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'', the American version of ''
Dragons' Den''.
O'Leary co-founded
SoftKey Software Products, a technology company that sold software geared toward family education and entertainment. During the late 1980s and 1990s, SoftKey became a major consolidator in the global educational software market, having acquired rival companies via
hostile takeover bids, such as Compton's New Media,
The Learning Company, and
Broderbund. SoftKey later changed its name to The Learning Company and was acquired by
Mattel
Mattel, Inc. ( ) is an American multinational toy manufacturing and entertainment company founded in January 1945 and headquartered in El Segundo, California. The company has presence in 35 countries and territories and sells products in more ...
in 1999, with the sale making O'Leary a multimillionaire.
Mattel then fired him after the acquisition which resulted in significant losses and multiple shareholder lawsuits.
In 2017, he campaigned to be the leader of the
Conservative Party of Canada
The Conservative Party of Canada (french: Parti conservateur du Canada), colloquially known as the Tories, is a federal political party in Canada. It was formed in 2003 by the merger of the two main right-leaning parties, the Progressive Con ...
.
He was a frontrunner in the polls during much of that time but dropped out in April 2017, one month before
the election
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, citing a lack of support in
Quebec
Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...
.
Early life and education
O'Leary was born on 9 July 1954,
in
Montreal
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, one of two sons of Georgette (née Bookalam), a small-business owner and investor of
Lebanese descent, and Terry O'Leary, a salesman of
Irish descent. Kevin also has a brother, Shane O'Leary.
[Allemang, John]
"Kevin O'Leary: The shark who swims alone"
''The Globe and Mail
''The Globe and Mail'' is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of approximately 2 million in 2015, it is Canada's most widely read newspaper on weekdays and Saturdays, although it ...
'', 23 September 2011. Due to his paternal heritage, O'Leary also holds Irish citizenship and carries an Irish passport. O'Leary has
dyslexia
Dyslexia, also known until the 1960s as word blindness, is a disorder characterized by reading below the expected level for one's age. Different people are affected to different degrees. Problems may include difficulties in spelling words, r ...
, which he argued helped him in the world of business.
O'Leary grew up in the
Town of Mount Royal
Mount Royal (french: Mont-Royal, officially Town of Mount Royal, french: Ville de Mont-Royal, abbreviated TMR, french: VMR) is an affluent on-island suburban town located on the northwest side of the eponymous Mount Royal, northwest of Downtown M ...
,
Quebec
Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...
. His parents divorced when he was a child, largely due to his father's alcoholism.
His father died shortly after that, when O'Leary was only seven. After his father's death, his mother ran the family's clothing business as an executive.
His mother later married an economist, George Kanawaty, who worked with the UN's
International Labour Organization
The International Labour Organization (ILO) is a United Nations agency whose mandate is to advance social and economic justice by setting international labour standards. Founded in October 1919 under the League of Nations, it is the first and o ...
.
His stepfather's international assignments caused the family to move frequently, and O'Leary lived in many places while growing up, including
Cambodia
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,
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...
,
Tunisia
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, and
Cyprus
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. In his youth, he met both
Haile Selassie
Haile Selassie I ( gez, ቀዳማዊ ኀይለ ሥላሴ, Qädamawi Häylä Səllasé, ; born Tafari Makonnen; 23 July 189227 August 1975) was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. He rose to power as Regent Plenipotentiary of Ethiopia (' ...
of Ethiopia and
Pol Pot
Pol Pot; (born Saloth Sâr;; 19 May 1925 – 15 April 1998) was a Cambodian revolutionary, dictator, and politician who ruled Cambodia as Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea between 1976 and 1979. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist a ...
of Cambodia. O'Leary attended
Stanstead College
Stanstead College is an English-language independent boarding school in Stanstead, Quebec, Canada, for boys and girls in Grades 7 through 12. The school is located on a campus in Quebec's Eastern Townships – just north of the Canada–Unite ...
and
St. George's School, both in Quebec.
O'Leary's mother was a skilled investor, investing a third of her weekly paycheque in large-cap, dividend-paying stocks and interest-bearing bonds, ultimately achieving high returns in her investment portfolio. She kept her investment portfolio secret, so O'Leary only discovered his mother's skill as an investor after her death when her will was executed.
Many of his investment lessons came from his mother, including the admonition to save one-third of his money.
O'Leary had aspired to become a photographer, but on the advice of his stepfather who prompted the young Kevin to be more realistic with his future career aspirations, ultimately led him to attend university,
where he continued to develop his interest in business and investing since his youth. He received an honours bachelor's degree in
environmental studies
Environmental studies is a multidisciplinary academic field which systematically studies human interaction with the environment. Environmental studies connects principles from the physical sciences, commerce/economics, the humanities, and social ...
and psychology from the
University of Waterloo in 1977
and an MBA in entrepreneurship from the
Ivey Business School
Ivey Business School is a constituent unit of the University of Western Ontario, located in London, Ontario, Canada. Ivey offers full-time undergraduate (HBA), MBA, MSc, MFE and PhD programs and also maintains two teaching facilities in Toronto ...
at the
University of Western Ontario
The University of Western Ontario (UWO), also known as Western University or Western, is a Public university, public research university in London, Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on of land, surrounded by resident ...
in 1980.
Business career
In 1978, between the first and second years of his MBA program, O'Leary was selected for an internship at
Nabisco
Nabisco (, abbreviated from the earlier name National Biscuit Company) is an American manufacturer of cookies and snacks headquartered in East Hanover, New Jersey. The company is a subsidiary of Illinois-based Mondelēz International.
Nabisco's ...
in
Downtown Toronto and then worked as an assistant brand manager for Nabisco's cat food brand.
O'Leary attributed his future business success at The Learning Company as a result of the extensive marketing skills that he honed during his assistant brand management days at Nabisco.
After leaving Nabisco, O'Leary began a brief career as a television producer. With two of his former MBA classmates, Scott Mackenzie and Dave Toms (both of whom had assisted on O'Leary's MBA documentary), O'Leary co-founded Special Event Television (SET).
SET was an independent television production company that produced original sports programming such as ''The Original Six'', ''Don Cherry's Grapevine,'' ''Bobby Orr and the Hockey Legends''. The company achieved limited success with minor television shows, soccer films, sports documentaries, and short in-between-period commercials for local professional hockey games.
One of his partners later bought out his share of the venture for $25,000.
Softkey
After selling his SET share, O'Leary then proceeded by moving onto his next business venture. He started Softkey in a Toronto basement in 1986, along with business partners John Freeman and Gary Babcock.
The company was a publisher and distributor of CD-based personal computer software for Windows and Macintosh computers. A major financial supporter who had committed $250,000 in investment capital to finance O'Leary's company backed out the day before signing the documents and delivering his cheque, leaving O'Leary to go elsewhere to seek the necessary funding sources that he needed to support his fledgling business. Desperate to secure funding, O'Leary turned to using the proceeds that he gained from selling his SET share while also convincing his mother to lend him $10,000 in seed capital to establish SoftKey Software Products.
As the software and personal-computer industries were proliferating throughout the course of the early 1980s, O'Leary convinced printer manufacturers to bundle Softkey's program with their hardware. With distribution assured, the company developed several educational software products focused on mathematics and reading education. Softkey products typically consisted of software for home users, especially
compilation discs containing various
freeware
Freeware is software, most often proprietary, that is distributed at no monetary cost to the end user. There is no agreed-upon set of rights, license, or EULA that defines ''freeware'' unambiguously; every publisher defines its own rules for the f ...
or
shareware
Shareware is a type of proprietary software that is initially shared by the owner for trial use at little or no cost. Often the software has limited functionality or incomplete documentation until the user sends payment to the software developer ...
games packaged in "jewel-case" CD-ROMs.
Softkey weathered stiff competition from other software companies in the late 1980s and prospered throughout the 1990s. By 1993, Softkey had become a major consolidator in the educational software market, acquiring rivals such as
WordStar and
Spinnaker Software in the process.
In 1995, Softkey acquired
The Learning Company (TLC) for $606 million, adopting its name, and moved its headquarters to
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge ( ) is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. As part of the Boston metropolitan area, the cities population of the 2020 U.S. census was 118,403, making it the fourth most populous city in the state, behind Boston, ...
.
TLC lost $105 million (US) in 1998 on revenues of $800 million and suffered losses over the previous two years.
TLC bought its former rival
Brøderbund
Broderbund Software, Inc. (stylized as Brøderbund) was an American maker of video games, educational software, and productivity tools. Broderbund is best known for the 8-bit video game hits ''Choplifter'', ''Lode Runner'', ''Karateka'', and '' ...
in June 1998 for $416 million.
In 1999, TLC was acquired by
Mattel
Mattel, Inc. ( ) is an American multinational toy manufacturing and entertainment company founded in January 1945 and headquartered in El Segundo, California. The company has presence in 35 countries and territories and sells products in more ...
for US$4.2 billion.
Following the acquisition, sales and earnings for Mattel soon dropped, and O'Leary was fired. The purchase by Mattel was later called one of the most disastrous corporate acquisitions in recent business history. While acquisition management had projected a post-acquisition profit of US$50 million, Mattel actually experienced a loss of US$105 million. Mattel's stock dropped, wiping out US$3 billion of shareholder value in a single day. Mattel's shareholders later filed a class-action lawsuit accusing Mattel executives, O'Leary, and former TLC CEO Michael Perik of misleading investors about the health of TLC and the benefits of its acquisition. The lawsuit alleged that TLC used accounting tricks to hide losses and inflate quarterly revenues. In response, O'Leary and his defendants disputed all of the charges, with Mattel later paying $122 million to settle the lawsuit in 2003. O'Leary blamed the technology meltdown and a culture clash of management of the two companies for the failure of the acquisition.
O'Leary and financial backers from
Citigroup
Citigroup Inc. or Citi (Style (visual arts), stylized as citi) is an American multinational investment banking, investment bank and financial services corporation headquartered in New York City. The company was formed by the merger of banking ...
made an unsuccessful attempt to acquire the French video game company
Atari
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, with O'Leary having made plans to start a video-gaming television channel which never materialized.
StorageNow Holdings
In 2003, O'Leary became a co-investor and corporate director at StorageNow Holdings, a Canadian developer of climate-controlled storage facilities controlled by Reza and Asif Satchu. StorageNow became the operator of storage services in Canada, with facilities in 11 cities, and was acquired by Storage REIT in March 2007 for $110 million.
O'Leary later sold his shares which yielded a windfall profit exceeding $4.5 million through realized capital gains, with his initial stake being originally valued at $500,000.
In May 2005, Reza Satchu and O'Leary's operating partner, Wheeler, filed a $10-million wrongful dismissal lawsuit, charging that they had altered an agreed-upon compensation deal and illegally reduced Wheeler's share of the profits.
O'Leary and Satchu claimed Wheeler failed to reach performance targets.
The case was settled out of court.
Other ventures
In March 2007, O'Leary joined the advisory board of
Genstar Capital
Genstar Capital is a private equity firm that executes leveraged buyout transactions in middle-market companies based in North America. Founded in 1988, Genstar currently has approximately $33 billion in assets under management.
Based in San ...
, a
private equity
In the field of finance, the term private equity (PE) refers to investment funds, usually limited partnerships (LP), which buy and restructure financially weak companies that produce goods and provide services. A private-equity fund is both a ty ...
firm that focuses on investing in health care, industrial technology, business services, and software. Genstar Capital appointed O'Leary to its Strategic Advisory Board to seek new investment opportunities for its $1.2 billion fund.
O'Leary Funds
In 2008, O'Leary co-founded O'Leary Funds Inc., a mutual fund management firm focused on global yield investing. He is the company's chairman and lead investor, while his brother Shane O'Leary serves as the director. The fund's assets under management grew from $400 million in 2011 to $1.2 billion in 2012.
The fund's primary manager was Stanton Asset Management, a firm controlled by the husband-and-wife team of
Connor O'Brien and Louise Ann Poirier.
According to research by Canadian banker
Mark R. McQueen
Mark McQueen is the President and CEO of CIBC Innovation Banking, who has been appointed to high-profile positions of public trust related to transport. In 2009, he was appointed chair of the Toronto Port Authority, and in 2014 he was appointed ...
, O'Leary's fund increased distribution yield from his funds by returning invested capital to shareholders. While this is not unusual, it was contrary to O'Leary's statements. Another analysis also found that one-quarter of the distributions from one of O'Leary's funds were return of capital.
In November 2014, O'Leary Funds Management agreed to pay penalties to the
Autorité des marchés financiers for violating certain technical provisions of the Securities Act. At the time of the agreement, O'Leary Funds reported taking steps to correct the violations. On October 15, 2015, O'Leary Funds was sold to Canoe Financial, a private investment-management company owned by Canadian businessman
W. Brett Wilson
William Brett Wilson (born July 1, 1957) is a Canadian investment banker, businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He was a season 3, 4 & 5 panellist on CBC Television's ''Dragons' Den''. He has attracted widespread attention and media covera ...
. Wilson once was an investor with O'Leary on CBC's ''Dragons' Den.''
O'Leary Ventures
O'Leary is also the founder of O'Leary Ventures, a private early-stage venture capital investment company, O'Leary Mortgages, O'Leary books, and O'Leary Fine Wines. In April 2014, O'Leary Mortgages closed.
O'Leary's funds have a questionable history and are said to have declined over 20% in a year, often a big blow to fund managers. O'Leary no longer manages outside money.
ETF and investing
On July 14, 2015, O'Leary launched an
ETF through O'Shares Investments, a division of his investment fund, O'Leary Funds Management LP where O'Leary serves as chairman. A
value investor
Value or values may refer to:
Ethics and social
* Value (ethics) wherein said concept may be construed as treating actions themselves as abstract objects, associating value to them
** Values (Western philosophy) expands the notion of value beyo ...
, he has advised on
personal finance
Personal finance is the financial management which an individual or a family unit performs to budget, save, and spend monetary resources over time, taking into account various financial risks and future life events.
When planning personal fi ...
.
He advocates
portfolio diversification and suggests that investors have their age as the percentage of
bonds in their portfolios (i.e., 30% in bonds and 70% in stocks for a 30-year-old investor, with an increasing proportion of bonds and decreasing proportion of stocks as the investor ages).
O'Leary has also "stated on many occasions that he won't invest in publicly-traded stock unless it pays him a
dividend
A dividend is a distribution of profits by a corporation to its shareholders. When a corporation earns a profit or surplus, it is able to pay a portion of the profit as a dividend to shareholders. Any amount not distributed is taken to be re-in ...
."
O'Leary is also an active
gold investor, with five percent of his financial portfolio invested in physical gold. However, he does not invest in stocks of gold-mining companies because he says
cash flow
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*a cash flow in its narrow sense is a payment (in a currency), especially from one central bank account to another; the term 'cash flow' is mostly used to describe payments that are expected ...
is an important investment factor to him. O'Leary also advises diversification in multiple industry sectors while dedicating no more than 20 percent of one's financial portfolio being concentrated in one sector.
Cryptocurrencies
O'Leary initially expressed skepticism about cryptocurrencies. In May 2019, O'Leary told CNBC
bitcoin
Bitcoin ( abbreviation: BTC; sign: ₿) is a decentralized digital currency that can be transferred on the peer-to-peer bitcoin network. Bitcoin transactions are verified by network nodes through cryptography and recorded in a public distr ...
is "a digital game" and is a "useless currency". He illustrated his thinking with the following example, "Let's say you want to buy a piece of real estate for $10 million in Switzerland...They want a guarantee that the value comes back to the U.S. currency. You have to somehow
hedge
A hedge or hedgerow is a line of closely spaced shrubs and sometimes trees, planted and trained to form a barrier or to mark the boundary of an area, such as between neighbouring properties. Hedges that are used to separate a road from adjoini ...
the risk of bitcoin. That means it's not a real currency. That means the receiver is not willing to take the risk of the volatility it has. It's worthless."
In May 2021, O'Leary told ''Pomp'' podcast host Anthony Pompliano that he had made a 3 to 5% allocation to bitcoin and had become a strategic investor in the
Vancouver
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-based
decentralized finance platform Defi Ventures; the company then renamed itself WonderFi Technologies, in reference to O'Leary's nickname, "Mr. Wonderful".
In August 2021, it was announced O'Leary would take an ownership stake in the parent companies of FTX.com and FTX.US as part of his compensation for becoming a "spokesperson and ambassador" for
FTX
FTX Trading Ltd., commonly known as FTX (short for "Futures Exchange") is a bankrupt company that formerly operated a cryptocurrency exchange and crypto hedge fund. The exchange was founded in 2019 and, at its peak in July 2021, had over one mi ...
. FTX subsequently
went bankrupt due to CEO
Sam Bankman-Fried
Samuel Benjamin Bankman-Fried (born March 6, 1992), also known by the initialism SBF, is an American suspected fraudster, entrepreneur, investor, and former billionaire. Bankman-Fried was the founder and CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX ...
secretly using client funds to make speculative bets that were unsuccessful. In November 2022, O'Leary, alongside other spokespeople for FTX, was sued in a
class-action lawsuit. There is precedent for prosecuting individuals promoting fraudulent cryptocurrency ventures—regardless of whether they had
plausible deniability
Plausible deniability is the ability of people, typically senior officials in a formal or informal chain of command, to denial, deny knowledge of or responsibility for any damnable actions committed by members of their organizational hierarchy. Th ...
. For example, in February 2022, the
U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a lawsuit against
Bitconnect
Bitconnect (also spelled BitConnect and KimConnect; stylized ''bitconnect'', ticker code BCC) was an open-source cryptocurrency in 2016–2018 that was connected with a high-yield investment program, a type of Ponzi scheme. After the platform a ...
that the
Securities Act of 1933
The Securities Act of 1933, also known as the 1933 Act, the Securities Act, the Truth in Securities Act, the Federal Securities Act, and the '33 Act, was enacted by the United States Congress on May 27, 1933, during the Great Depression and after ...
extends to
targeted solicitation using
social media
Social media are interactive media technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, interests, and other forms of expression through virtual communities and networks. While challenges to the definition of ''social medi ...
. O'Leary claimed on CNBC that he was paid $15 million for the spokesman role, adding that he lost $9.7 million in digital assets, the remainder allotment in various fees and taxes, and a further million dollars' worth of equity after the company's insolvency. At an FTX hearing, O'Leary claimed that
Binance
Binance is a cryptocurrency exchange which is the largest exchange in the world in terms of daily trading volume of cryptocurrencies. It was founded in 2017 and is registered in the Cayman Islands.
Binance was founded by Changpeng Zhao, a deve ...
CEO
Changpeng Zhao "put FTX out of business."
O'Leary has been an advocate of
cryptocurrency
A cryptocurrency, crypto-currency, or crypto is a digital currency designed to work as a medium of exchange through a computer network that is not reliant on any central authority, such as a government or bank, to uphold or maintain it. It i ...
investing and personally owns coins in the cryptocurrencies
Ether
In organic chemistry, ethers are a class of compounds that contain an ether group—an oxygen atom connected to two alkyl or aryl groups. They have the general formula , where R and R′ represent the alkyl or aryl groups. Ethers can again be c ...
, A4M Ethereum Blockchain,
Polygon
In geometry, a polygon () is a plane figure that is described by a finite number of straight line segments connected to form a closed ''polygonal chain'' (or ''polygonal circuit''). The bounded plane region, the bounding circuit, or the two toge ...
,
SOL
Sol or SOL may refer to:
Astronomy
* The Sun
Currency
* SOL Project, a currency project in France
* French sol, or sou
* Argentine sol
* Bolivian sol, the currency of Bolivia from 1827 to 1864
* Peruvian sol, introduced in 1991
* Peruvian sol ( ...
,
Bitcoin
Bitcoin ( abbreviation: BTC; sign: ₿) is a decentralized digital currency that can be transferred on the peer-to-peer bitcoin network. Bitcoin transactions are verified by network nodes through cryptography and recorded in a public distr ...
, and
Pawthereum.
Books
* ''Cold Hard Truth: On Business, Money & Life'' (2011)
* ''Cold Hard Truth on Men, Women, and Money: 50 Common Money Mistakes and How to Fix Them'' (2012)
* ''Cold Hard Truth on Family, Kids and Money'' (2015)
* ''Cold Hard Truth on Marriage and Money: Part Two of Cold Hard Truth on Family, Kids and Money'' (2015)
* ''Digital Pivot or Bust In a Post COVID-19 World: Why Small Businesses Must Re-Think Everything to Survive and Thrive!'' (2020)
In September 2011, O'Leary released his first book, ''Cold Hard Truth: On Business, Money & Life'', in which he shares his views on family relationships, investing, money, and life. A sequel, ''The Cold Hard Truth on Men, Women, and Money: 50 Common Money Mistakes and How to Fix Them'', was published in 2012. The book's emphasis was placed on recognizing the significance of cultivating financial literacy and financial education, which serve as fundamental pillars for building and attaining financial abundance, freedom, and stability. In 2015, O'Leary published a subsequent work delving into topics pertaining to important life choices such as education, choice of career paths, managing personal financial matters and fiscal stewardship, romantic relationships, matrimony, raising children, familial bonds, and retirement planning. Furthermore, he explores the challenges associated with parenting and nurturing a family while concurrently working to provide wealth and financial security for them. He also imparts guidance on managing one's personal financial situation, ranging from the importance of inculcating financial literacy values within family members, promoting the habitual practice of saving and investing money, as well as properly and proficiently managing loans, debts, and credit.
Media
''Dragons' Den'' and ''Shark Tank''
In 2006, O'Leary appeared as one of the five follow-up venture capitalists on the then-new show ''
Dragons' Den'' on CBC, the Canadian installment of the international ''
Dragons' Den'' format. On the show, O'Leary developed a
persona as a blunt, abrasive investor, who at one point told a contestant who started crying, "Money doesn't care. Your tears don't add any value."
This television persona was encouraged by executive producer Stuart Coxe, who occasionally asked O'Leary to be "more evil" during the first two seasons. ''Dragons' Den'' became one of the most-watched shows in CBC history, with around two million viewers per episode.
Coxe attributed the show's success in large part to O'Leary's presence.
In 2009, the American version of ''Dragons' Den'', ''
Shark Tank
''Shark Tank'' is an American business reality television series that premiered on August 9, 2009, on ABC.Hibberd, James (May 10, 201'Dancing,' 'Bachelor,' and a bigger 'Shark Tank' returning to ABCInsider TV. Retrieved June 24, 2012 The show i ...
'', began, and ''Shark Tank'' executive producer
Mark Burnett invited two of the CBC ''Dragons' Den'' investors, O'Leary and
Robert Herjavec
Robert Herjavec (; ; born September 14, 1962) is a Croatian-Canadian businessman, investor, and television personality.
Herjavec founded BRAK Systems, a Canadian integrator of Internet security software, and sold it to AT&T Canada (now Allstre ...
, to appear on the show. Both have remained with ''Shark Tank'' since the beginning. For several years, they appeared on both shows, although Herjavec left ''Dragons' Den'' in 2012, and O'Leary left in 2014. ''Shark Tank'' became a ratings hit, averaging 9 million viewers per episode at its peak in the 2014–15 season.
It has also been a critical favourite, winning the
four times.
O'Leary's appearances on ''Dragons' Den'' and ''Shark Tank'' popularized the nickname "Mr. Wonderful" for him; he has said that he is often referred to by that name in public.
O'Leary has said that the nickname serves both as a tongue-in-cheek reference to his reputation for being mean, as well as a reflection of his view that his blunt assessments are helpful to misguided, naive, and inexperienced entrepreneurs. In a 2013 interview, O'Leary implied that he could not remember how he got the nickname.
He had already referred to himself as "Mr. Wonderful" in a 2006 casting video for ''Dragon's Den'', predating either show.
Besides his acerbic demeanor, domineering imposition, and blunt television persona, O'Leary has also gained a reputation on both shows for preferring deals in which he loans the entrepreneurs money in exchange for
a percentage of future revenue, rather than taking a
share of the company.
Notable deals in which O'Leary has been involved on ''Shark Tank'' include investments in
Talbott Teas (later bought by
Jamba Juice
Jamba Juice, doing business as Jamba, is an American company that produces blended fruit and vegetable juices, smoothies and similar products. The company is co-owned—with Moe's Southwest Grill, Schlotzsky's, Carvel, Cinnabon, McAlister's Deli ...
) and GrooveBook (later bought by
Shutterfly), the latter with
Mark Cuban. Some of his recent investments include Hello Prenup with Nirav Tolia of
Nextdoor. All of his ''Dragons' Den'' and ''Shark Tank'' investments are consolidated, presided, and managed under his
holding company
A holding company is a company whose primary business is holding a controlling interest in the securities of other companies. A holding company usually does not produce goods or services itself. Its purpose is to own shares of other companies ...
, called "Something Wonderful."
Discovery Channel's ''Discovery Project Earth''
In 2008, O'Leary worked as a co-host for the
Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel (known as The Discovery Channel from 1985 to 1995, and often referred to as simply Discovery) is an American cable channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav. , Discovery Channe ...
's ''
Discovery Project Earth'', a show that explores innovative ways to reverse
climate change
In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system. Climate change in a broader sense also includes previous long-term changes to E ...
.
The Lang and O'Leary Exchange
In 2009, O'Leary began appearing with journalist
Amanda Lang
Amanda Lang (born 31 October 1970) is a Canadian
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these ...
on
CBC News Network
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's ''
The Lang and O'Leary Exchange''. During a segment of ''The Lang & O'Leary Exchange'' on the
Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street (OWS) was a protest Social movement, movement against economic inequality and the Campaign finance, influence of money in politics that began in Zuccotti Park, located in New York City's Financial District, Manhattan, Wall S ...
protests in 2011, O'Leary criticized Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Chris Hedges
Christopher Lynn Hedges (born September 18, 1956) is an American journalist, Presbyterian minister, author, and commentator.
In his early career, Hedges worked as a freelance war correspondent in Central America for ''The Christian Science Mon ...
for sounding "like a left-wing nutbar." Hedges said afterward that "it will be the last time" he would appear on the show and compared the CBC to
Fox News
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. CBC's ombudsman found O'Leary's behaviour to be a violation of the public broadcaster's journalistic standards.
In January 2014, on ''The Lang and O'Leary Exchange'', O'Leary remarked,
O'Leary later clarified these statements, saying,
Other projects
In 2009, O'Leary hosted a
Winnipeg Comedy Festival gala called ''Savings & Groans'' in which he performed a ''Dragon's Den'' style sketch in which
Sean Cullen and
Ron Sparks tried to get him to invest in their invention - the wheel. The show aired on
CBC in 2010.
O'Leary co-produced and hosted the 2012 reality show ''
Redemption Inc.
''Redemption Inc.'' (also known as ''Redemption Inc. with Kevin O'Leary'') is a nine-part Canadian reality TV game show hosted by business commentator Kevin O'Leary, broadcast on CBC, produced by Proper Television. The show stars 10 ex-cons, f ...
'', which aired for one season on CBC, in which ten ex-convicts competed to have O'Leary fund their business idea.
Having also been a co-host of ''SqueezePlay'' on
Bell Media's
Business News Network (BNN), he returned to the Discovery Channel on September 1, 2014 to join as a contributor for its radio and television stations such as
CTV.
On May 5, 2015, O'Leary made an appearance on the game show ''
Celebrity Jeopardy
''Jeopardy!'' is an American television quiz show created by Merv Griffin, in which contestants are presented with clues in the form of answers and must phrase their responses in the form of questions. Over the years, the show has featured many to ...
'' and received $10,000 for his charity despite finishing 3rd and in negative points after both Double Jeopardy and Final Jeopardy rounds.
In September that year, O'Leary appeared as a celebrity judge in the 95th
Miss America
Miss America is an annual competition that is open to women from the United States between the ages of 17 and 25. Originating in 1921 as a "bathing beauty revue", the contest is now judged on competitors' talent performances and interviews. As ...
pageant.
In 2018 O'Leary hosted the podcast ''Ask Mr. Wonderful'' for seven episodes. In 2019, he began regularly posting videos on
YouTube
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, again under the title "Ask Mr. Wonderful".
In 2021, O'Leary appeared with
Katie Phang
Kathleen Suzanne Phang (born August 1, 1975) is an American attorney, legal analyst, and television host. She hosts ''The Katie Phang Show'', which airs on the weekends on MSNBC and Thursdays to Fridays on Peacock.
Early life
Phang was born in ...
and Ada Pozo on
CNBC
CNBC (formerly Consumer News and Business Channel) is an American basic cable business news channel. It provides business news programming on weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., Eastern Time, while broadcasting talk sho ...
's ''Money Court'', where they adjudicated financial disputes.
He is currently a member of ARHT Media's Board of Advisors, alongside Canadian singer
Paul Anka and Mexican telecommunications giant
Carlos Slim.
Politics
In January 2016, O'Leary offered to invest $1 million in the economy of
Alberta
Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Ter ...
in exchange for the resignation of
Premier
Premier is a title for the head of government in central governments, state governments and local governments of some countries. A second in command to a premier is designated as a deputy premier.
A premier will normally be a head of governm ...
Rachel Notley and appeared with four other prospective leadership candidates at a conference for federal Conservatives in late February 2016, where he gave a presentation titled "If I Run, This is How." During his speech, he predicted that the Liberal government would fall within four years of economic collapse.
2017 federal Conservative Party leadership race
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Following
Stephen Harper
Stephen Joseph Harper (born April 30, 1959) is a Canadian politician who served as the 22nd prime minister of Canada from 2006 to 2015. Harper is the first and only prime minister to come from the modern-day Conservative Party of Canada, ...
's resignation as leader of the
Conservative Party of Canada
The Conservative Party of Canada (french: Parti conservateur du Canada), colloquially known as the Tories, is a federal political party in Canada. It was formed in 2003 by the merger of the two main right-leaning parties, the Progressive Con ...
, O'Leary attended Conservative Party gatherings in February and May 2016, leading to public speculation about whether he would run for the
2017 leadership election.
In February 2016,
Maxime Bernier, a Conservative Quebecois politician, criticized O'Leary, calling him a "tourist" for wanting to be prime minister without being able to speak French. Bernier later explained that he wanted all leadership candidates to learn French and praised his fellow leadership contender
Lisa Raitt
Lisa Sarah MacCormack Raitt (born May 7, 1968) is a former Canadian politician who served as a Cabinet of Canada, federal Cabinet minister and Member of Parliament (Canada), member of Parliament (MP) from 2008 to 2019. A member of the Conservativ ...
, who was trying to improve her French. O'Leary stated that he was taking French lessons, and he promised to learn French in time for the next federal election.
On January 18, 2017, O'Leary officially entered the Conservative leadership race.
That same day, his former ''Dragons' Den'' co-star
Arlene Dickinson
Arlene Dickinson (born October 8, 1956) is a South African Canadian businesswoman, investor, author, and television personality. She is the general partner of District Ventures Capital and CEO of Venturepark. Dickinson joined the cast of the C ...
stated that she found O'Leary to be too "self-interested and opportunistic" to be qualified for the office of prime minister. In response, another former ''Dragons' Den'' co-star,
W. Brett Wilson
William Brett Wilson (born July 1, 1957) is a Canadian investment banker, businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He was a season 3, 4 & 5 panellist on CBC Television's ''Dragons' Den''. He has attracted widespread attention and media covera ...
, endorsed O'Leary, highlighting differences between O'Leary as a businessman and his TV persona.
On February 1, 2017, O'Leary posted a video of himself shooting in a
Miami
Miami ( ), officially the City of Miami, known as "the 305", "The Magic City", and "Gateway to the Americas", is a East Coast of the United States, coastal metropolis and the County seat, county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida, Miami-Dade C ...
gun range. It was removed from
Facebook
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out of respect for the funeral for three victims of the
Quebec City mosque shooting
The Quebec City mosque shooting (french: Attentat de la grande mosquée de Québec) was an attack by a single gunman on the evening of January 29, 2017, at the Islamic Cultural Centre of Quebec City, a mosque in the Sainte-Foy neighbourhood ...
on that day. It was also revealed that he was in New York promoting one of his business ventures when this occurred. O'Leary later apologized for the timing of this post.
O'Leary was a frontrunner in the polls throughout most of his run. Nevertheless, he dropped out of the leadership race on April 26, 2017, stating that, though he still thought he could win the leadership election, a lack of support in Quebec meant that it would be difficult for him to beat Trudeau in 2019, and it would thus be "selfish" of him to continue. On dropping out, he endorsed Bernier, another frontrunner for the position.
(
Andrew Scheer eventually won the leadership election, narrowly edging out Bernier.)
Political positions
Economy and trade
O'Leary supports multilateral free trade agreements such as the
North American Free Trade Agreement
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA ; es, Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte, TLCAN; french: Accord de libre-échange nord-américain, ALÉNA) was an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States that crea ...
. He described hypothetical trade negotiations between US President
Donald Trump
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.
Trump graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pe ...
and Canadian Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau
Justin Pierre James Trudeau ( , ; born December 25, 1971) is a Canadian politician who is the 23rd and current prime minister of Canada. He has served as the prime minister of Canada since 2015 and as the leader of the Liberal Party since 2 ...
as "
Godzilla
is a fictional monster, or '' kaiju'', originating from a series of Japanese films. The character first appeared in the 1954 film ''Godzilla'' and became a worldwide pop culture icon, appearing in various media, including 32 films produc ...
versus
Bambi". O'Leary believes
corporate tax rates in Canada are too high and has promised to eliminate the national
carbon tax.
O'Leary has threatened to punish
provinces by withholding transfer payments if they do not eliminate their respective carbon taxes.
O'Leary is a critic of
deficit spending and supports eliminating the
national debt
A country's gross government debt (also called public debt, or sovereign debt) is the financial liabilities of the government sector. Changes in government debt over time reflect primarily borrowing due to past government deficits. A deficit oc ...
.
O'Leary opposes control of the
CRTC over Canada's telecommunications system.
Energy
O'Leary supports building a pipeline from the
Athabasca oil sands to
Eastern Canada
Eastern Canada (also the Eastern provinces or the East) is generally considered to be the region of Canada south of the Hudson Bay/Strait and east of Manitoba, consisting of the following provinces (from east to west): Newfoundland and Labrador, ...
with the intention of making Canada "energy independent". He has criticized Canada's reliance on Saudi Arabia for oil and gas. He has stated he would support a national referendum on the issue of pipelines.
Social
O'Leary describes his social policies as "very liberal". He supports
same-sex marriage
Same-sex marriage, also known as gay marriage, is the marriage of two people of the same Legal sex and gender, sex or gender. marriage between same-sex couples is legally performed and recognized in 33 countries, with the most recent being ...
and
transgender
A transgender (often abbreviated as trans) person is someone whose gender identity or gender expression does not correspond with their sex assigned at birth. Many transgender people experience dysphoria, which they seek to alleviate through tr ...
rights.
O'Leary supports the legalization and regulation of
marijuana
Cannabis, also known as marijuana among other names, is a psychoactive drug from the cannabis plant. Native to Central or South Asia, the cannabis plant has been used as a drug for both recreational and entheogenic purposes and in various tra ...
.
O'Leary supports
assisted suicide
Assisted suicide is suicide undertaken with the aid of another person. The term usually refers to physician-assisted suicide (PAS), which is suicide that is assisted by a physician or other healthcare provider. Once it is determined that the p ...
and cited Switzerland as a model for Canada to follow.
He has accused Rep.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (; ; born October 13, 1989), also known by her initials AOC, is an American politician and activist. She has served as the U.S. representative for New York's 14th congressional district since 2019, as a member of th ...
, a New York politician, of "killing jobs by the thousands", citing higher corporate taxes which she favors.
Foreign and military policy
O'Leary supported ending
Canadian airstrikes on ISIS and supports taking a peacekeeping role in the
Syrian Civil War.
In 2017, O'Leary described Russia as "neither an ally nor a foe" in an interview with the CBC.
O'Leary has criticized
Justin Trudeau
Justin Pierre James Trudeau ( , ; born December 25, 1971) is a Canadian politician who is the 23rd and current prime minister of Canada. He has served as the prime minister of Canada since 2015 and as the leader of the Liberal Party since 2 ...
's procurement plan. He supports purchasing
aerial combat drones to defend
Canadian airspace 300px, Canadian CF-18 escorts Soviet Tu-95 bomber, 1987">Tu-95.html" ;"title="CF-18 escorts Soviet Tu-95">CF-18 escorts Soviet Tu-95 bomber, 1987
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and supports phasing out the use of the
Lockheed CP-140 Aurora citing cost reasons.
He has criticized the lack of funding of the
Canadian Armed Forces
}
The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF; french: Forces armées canadiennes, ''FAC'') are the unified military forces of Canada, including sea, land, and air elements referred to as the Royal Canadian Navy, Canadian Army, and Royal Canadian Air Force.
...
and supports spending the
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO, ; french: Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, ), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 member states – 28 European and two No ...
recommended 2% of GDP on military expenditures.
Immigration
O'Leary has proposed creating a "fast track" for citizenship for immigrants who graduate from college or university and find employment, as well as for their spouses and children.
O'Leary has advocated for increased border security in order to tackle the issue of irregular border crossing.
Senate
In a 2017 interview with
Evan Solomon, O'Leary suggested that
Senators should pay money every year, instead of being paid, thus turning "a cost centre to Canada" into "a profit centre."
Leadership debt and lawsuit
In November 2018, O'Leary hired lawyer
Joseph Groia and sued
Elections Canada and Canada's federal elections commissioner over campaign finance laws which limited candidates to spending only $25,000 of their own money for their leadership campaign. At the time of the lawsuit, O'Leary still owed $430,000 to creditors. O'Leary had proposed to Elections Canada that he pay off the debt now with his own money and fundraise the money later, but was rebuffed, since this would be illegal. O'Leary publicly stated that the law promoted mediocrity since rich people would be discouraged from running and hurt the businesses that had pledged money for his failed leadership campaign.
In O'Leary's legal submissions, he argued that the laws preventing the use of personal money over $25,000 were a restriction of his
Section 2 Charter
A charter is the grant of authority or rights, stating that the granter formally recognizes the prerogative of the recipient to exercise the rights specified. It is implicit that the granter retains superiority (or sovereignty), and that the rec ...
right to free expression and the threat of jail time in those laws violated his
Section 7 right to security of the person.
Personal life
O'Leary is
Catholic
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...
. He and his wife, Linda (
née
A birth name is the name of a person given upon birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name, or the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a birth certificate or birth re ...
Greer), have been married since 1990.
The couple separated in 2011, but they resumed their marriage after two years.
Linda now serves as the VP of Marketing for O'Leary Wines. They have two children, Trevor and Savannah.
In a 2016 interview, O'Leary stated: "In a successful growing business, it eats your time alive. Then later in life, you can provide for your family things that many others can't have. But because you sacrificed, you're then given the reward of freedom."
The O'Learys live in
Miami Beach
Miami Beach is a coastal resort city in Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was incorporated on March 26, 1915. The municipality is located on natural and man-made barrier islands between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay, the latter of which sep ...
and
Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the ancho ...
. He also maintains a cottage in
Muskoka, Ontario
The District Municipality of Muskoka, more generally referred to as the District of Muskoka or Muskoka, is a regional municipality in Central Ontario, Canada. Muskoka extends from Georgian Bay in the west, to the northern tip of Lake Couchiching ...
, as well as homes in
Boston
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and
Geneva
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, Switzerland.
In a 2022 CNBC interview, he mentioned that he has obtained a
UAE
The United Arab Emirates (UAE; ar, اَلْإِمَارَات الْعَرَبِيَة الْمُتَحِدَة ), or simply the Emirates ( ar, الِْإمَارَات ), is a country in Western Asia (The Middle East). It is located at th ...
citizenship in order to be able to partner with
Emiratis on investments.
O'Leary is a fan of the
New England Patriots
The New England Patriots are a professional American football team based in the Greater Boston area. They compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) AFC East, East divisio ...
football
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team and claims to watch all of their games, even when he is traveling around the world and games occur during the middle of the night.
He is a
wine aficionado and belongs to the
Confrérie des Chevaliers du Tastevin
The Confrérie des Chevaliers du Tastevin (English: ''Fraternity of Knights of the Wine-Tasters' Cup'') is an exclusive bacchanalian fraternity of Burgundy wine connoisseurs.
Originally formed under the Ancien Régime and re-established in 193 ...
, an international association of
Burgundy wine enthusiasts. He is also a lifelong photographer and has exhibited and sold prints of his photographs, donating the proceeds to charity. O'Leary is also an avid watch collector and expert, sharing his insights on both ''Shark Tank'' and social media.
On August 24, 2019, O'Leary and his wife Linda were involved in a fatal crash on
Lake Joseph in
Muskoka, Ontario
The District Municipality of Muskoka, more generally referred to as the District of Muskoka or Muskoka, is a regional municipality in Central Ontario, Canada. Muskoka extends from Georgian Bay in the west, to the northern tip of Lake Couchiching ...
when they were on a boat owned by O'Leary and operated at the time by Linda. The O'Learys' boat collided with another one and a 64-year-old man and 48-year-old woman on that vessel were killed. O'Leary said in a statement that he was cooperating with the police investigation and that the other boat did not have its lights on and "fled the scene". The police stated that both boats left the scene to "attend a location", and both parties called 911."
On 24 September, Linda O'Leary was charged with "careless operation of a vessel" under the small vessel regulations of the ''
Canada Shipping Act
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by total ...
'', a charge that carries maximum 18 months imprisonment and a $10,000 fine. The driver of the other boat, Richard Ruh of
Orchard Park, New York
Orchard Park is a town in Erie County, New York. It is an outer ring suburb southeast of Buffalo. As of the 2010 census, the population was 29,054, representing an increase of 5.13% from the 2000 census figure. The town contains a village als ...
, was charged with "failing to exhibit navigation light while underway." On October 11, the
Public Prosecution Service of Canada
The Public Prosecution Service of Canada (PPSC; french: Service des poursuites pénales du Canada (SPPC)) was established on December 12, 2006 by the ''Director of Public Prosecutions Act''. A federal agency, the PPSC prosecutes offences on behal ...
ruled out jail time for Linda. On September 14, 2021, Linda was found not guilty of careless operation of the vessel.
Bibliography
* ''Cold Hard Truth: On Business, Money & Life''. Doubleday Canada. 2011.
* ''Cold Hard Truth on Men, Women & Money''. Doubleday Canada. 2012.
* ''Cold Hard Truth on Family, Kids and Money''. Doubleday Canada. 2013.
See also
*
List of University of Waterloo people
References
External links
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