How getting 'fired' by the Kardashians led Daymond John to 'Shark Tank' (via CNBCMakeIt)
While most people today know Daymond John as the creator of the clothing brand FUBU and an investor on ABC's "Shark Tank," in the early 2000s, John worked closely with the Kardashian family.
This was a difficult task at the time, because the Kardashians were just beginning their careers as fashion moguls and entrepreneurs, Johnon "The Wendy Williams Show" in April 2017. "Nobody would do it; they didn't believe in these girls," he said. He often paid to have his own brands, such as FUBU or Coogi, featured on the show.
John was approached to join ABC's "Shark Tank" as an investor around 2008, but he initially turned it down "when I found out we were going to spend our own money," he joked in the 2016 interview. In fact, John thought the show was going to be a failure, heBut, amid a recession, John realized it was the right time to diversify his business portfolio.
Suddenly, joining "Shark Tank" seemed more appealing, but there was a catch: John couldn't take the job because he was involved with "Keeping Up With The Kardashians," which appeared on a different network. "ABC said, 'You can't do any other show but ours,'" he said in 2016.
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