Stansberry Investor Hour host Porter Stansberry interviewed serial entrepreneur and Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary. The two businessmen and media personalities had an animated discussion about deal structures, value investing, and wealth preservation.
Known as “Mr. Wonderful” for his brash and demeaning on-air personality, O’Leary made the bulk of his fortune as the co-founder of SoftKey in the 80’s.
“I’m just telling people the truth about business, which is binary,” O’Leary said. “You either make money, or you lose it. People appreciate that over time. I stop people from making disastrous mistakes. If you think I’m tough on Shark Tank, wait until you see what the real world will do to you. I’m your best friend. I’m the only shark that tells the truth.”
This decade, O’Leary started mutual fund management firm O’Leary Funds and a beverage company, O’Leary Fine Wines. He goes into business always looking to sustain his wealth while making steady gains.
“My mother used to have a saying, ‘Never spend the principal… just the interest,’” O’Leary said. “She was the same way on stocks. She wanted to get paid a dividend. When you invest in something, it has to provide an ongoing return in addition to potential capital gains all the time.”
When it comes to private equity and angel investing, O’Leary loves to structure royalty deals – particularly in family business – instead of asking for equity splits or other ownership options.
“You don’t have to be an equity owner to align your interests with an entrepreneur,” O’Leary told Stansberry. “A royalty stream can do that too.”
The discussion finished with O’Leary sharing the secret to his brand-building: honesty.
“Tell the truth,” O’Leary said. “The first time you lie to your significant other, you lose 50% of the equity in that relationship forever. You can never get it back to where it was. So why don’t you just tell the truth every day?”
Listen to the episode with Kevin O’Leary at https://youtu.be/fPLstfqKdUQ.
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Porter Stansberry founded Stansberry Research in 1999 with the firm's flagship newsletter, Stansberry's Investment Advisory.
Prior to launching Stansberry Research, Porter was the first American editor of the Fleet Street Letter, the world's oldest English-language financial newsletter.
Today, Porter is well-known for doing some of the most important – and often controversial – work in the financial advisory business. Since he launched Stansberry's Investment Advisory, his string of accurate forecasts has made his advisory one of the most widely read in the world and has helped his readers both avoid catastrophe and make incredible gains.
For example, his dead-on prediction of the mortgage meltdown got the attention of Barron's, who said Porter's work was "remarkably prescient... Nothing, as far as we can see, has happened to contradict his dire prophecy..."
At Stansberry Research, Porter oversees more than a dozen of the best editors and analysts in the business, who do an exhaustive amount of real-world, independent research. Together, his group has visited hundreds of publicly traded companies to bring Stansberry Research subscribers the safest, most profitable investment ideas in the world, no matter what’s happening in the markets.
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Buck Sexton is host of the nationally syndicated talk radio program, Buck Sexton with America Now, heard on over 100 stations across the country.
Buck is a political commentator and national security analyst who appears frequently on the Fox News Channel and CNN. Buck has also had the distinction of being a guest host for Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity on their nationally syndicated radio shows, and is the only talent to have hosted all three shows.
Buck formerly served as a CIA officer in the Counterterrorism Center (CTC) and the Office of Iraq Analysis. He completed tours of duty as an intelligence officer in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as other hotspots around the globe, and led intelligence briefings for senior U.S. officials including the president. Buck also served in the New York Police Department (NYPD) Intelligence Division working on counterterrorism issues.
A graduate of Amherst College, Buck was born and raised in New York City, where he currently resides.
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