Michael Michalowicz ( ; born September 19, 1970) is an American non-fiction author, children’s author, entrepreneur, and lecturer. He is the author of eight business books published by Penguin Random House, including ''All In'' (2023), ''Get Different'' (2021), ''Profit First'' (2017) and ''Clockwork Revised & Expanded'' (2022), and is the former host of the "Business Rescue" segment for MSNBC's ''Your Business''. He was previously the small business columnist for ''

The Wall Street Journal ''The Wall Street Journal'' is an American business-focused, international daily newspaper based in New York City, with international editions also available in Chinese and Japanese. The ''Journal'', along with its Asian editions, is published ...

'' and hosted the reality television program called '' Bailout!''.

Books

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Career

Michalowicz founded Olmec Systems in 1996 and sold the business in a private equity transaction in 2003. In 2003 he co-founded a computer forensic firm, which was a lead examiner in the

Enron scandal The Enron scandal was an accounting scandal involving Enron Corporation, an American energy company based in Houston, Texas. Upon being publicized in October 2001, the company declared bankruptcy and its accounting firm, Arthur Andersen then on ...

. That company was acquired by

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in 2006. The transaction was valued at$27.0.million. Mike Michalowicz currently owns seven companies and has six additional organizations with exclusively licensing rights to his work.

Early life and education

A resident of

Mountain Lakes, New Jersey Mountain Lakes is a Borough (New Jersey), borough in Morris County, New Jersey, Morris County, New Jersey, United States, and a suburb of New York City. As of the 2010 United States census, the borough's population was 4,160,

, Michalowicz was raised in

Boonton Township, New Jersey Boonton Township is a township in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 4,380, an increase of 117 (2.7%) from the 2010 census count of 4,263, which in turn reflected a de ...

and attended

Boonton High School Boonton High School is a comprehensive four-year public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grades from Boonton, in Morris County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Boonton Public Schools. The school i ...

. Michalowicz graduated from

Virginia Tech Virginia Tech (formally the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and informally VT, or VPI) is a Public university, public Land-grant college, land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. It also ...

in 1993 and was captain of the Virginia Tech men’s lacrosse team. He graduated with two degrees, one in finance and the other in management science.

References

External links

Official website
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