by Rushali 
Ever heard of Entrepreneurs? Of course, you must have heard about entrepreneurs, the fashion of dropping out of college and starting your corporation just because you were bad at academics and don’t want the 10-5 office lifestyle. Yes, that’s entrepreneurship. Okay apart from the jokes and memes. Entrepreneurship is the discipline to make your own life and dwell in your financial freedom without worrying about working on Sundays. Sounds better, right?
If you are not aware of what entrepreneurship is then sorry, you can just read some other article or for that matter, some another blog too because if you don’t know what entrepreneurship is then you must be living under a rock. According to statistics, it is one of the most searched terms on google.
Okay, now that I have filtered out the audience let’s ask you about “Eco-preneurship”, perplexed right?
Well, don’t be because It is not a very hard term to explain, as you can easily see it is made up of two words which translate into an entrepreneur who cares about nature and only works with eco-friendly companies and clients. The entrepreneur who is working in the field of preserving nature and how does he/she do that?
If his/her company is making a product then by ensuring the product is totally eco friendly and doesn’t harm nature in any way, staying away from plastic.
By ensuring the products don’t add up to the carbon footprint of the planet.
Let’s look at one such self-proclaimed “Eco-preneur” who happens to be a television personality and also a bitcoin investor. You must have heard about him or if you are in the entrepreneurship field then you may have seen him as an investor of Shark tank or Dragons den.
Let’s dive deep into the life of the famous Mr. wonderful
Kevin O Leary and as per the drill of this section of the blog take a look at his total net worth, which is huge.
Introduction
Kevin O Leary was born in Montreal, Canada in July 1954 and completed his formal education in the field of Environmental Studies from the University of Waterloo followed by his master’s degree in business administration, MBA in entrepreneurship/entrepreneurial studies. Now you know where does the “Eco-Preneurship” got its name from, it was O Leary’s subject interest of education.
On completing his education 1980 in 1983 he started a software company from his mother’s basement under the name of “Softkey software”, a company focused on total family entertainment and education of children.
He had an approach of taking no prisoners so, he acquired all of the companies competitors purchasing every one of them. The companies competitors list included huge companies in the field such as Broderbund and Mindscape.
In 1999, after running or I may say ruling his company for almost 16 years successfully in a huge deal with Mattel of around 4.6 billion dollars that too in 1999. He sold his company and was soon fired from the company. This deal made him a billionaire.
As he learned the skill of investments from his mother, he took control of all his wealth from his fund managers and laid the foundation of his own mutual fund company known as O’Leary funds, and also raised millions of dollars from capital investors.
After working in the field of money for some while, still working…in 2009, he appeared on the world-famous T.V show as you all must be aware of “Shark Tank”
A show where startup founders fight for the investor’s money by bringing in and convincing the star investors with their amazing and sometimes ridiculous ideas.
He has also appeared in the Japanese version of the show named Dragons Den, very original.
O Leary is also a strategic advisor for firms like Tax hive and StartEngine.
He also runs his own ETF fund company known as O’Shares investments and sits on the post of Chairman.
Okay, now you must be thinking where does the bitcoin connection come from?
I was not lying before, he is currently like really now…this news is from a day ago…He is interested in the decentralized finance field which we popularly know as Defi, and is also planning to launch a Defi investment company. This is not all, he has been into statements like “Ethereum is Silver but Bitcoin will always be the gold” which shows his belief that there will always be the number two and bitcoin number one.
Ironically, like the other big players of the money market O’Leary once called bitcoin garbage and now, he is planning to open a Defi investment company. That’s a change of mind.
I don’t know what is holding the Indian banking institutions from making such a move. Wake up!
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Kevin O Leary Networth
The assumed net worth as of 2021 for Kevin O Leary is almost around 400 million US dollars which makes him the richest investor on Sharktank, no doubt why all the contestants wanted him to invest. To build wealth and that too with an eco-friendly approach is tough, to say the least, but, his philosophy didn’t change, and is still a self-proclaimed “Eco-Preneur”. I am not sure if his political career helped at all, we will find out in a later article. *wink*
