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Kevin O’Leary – A ruthless man who hungers for big deals and loves to take control, yet he made all his money helping children learn how to read.

Like a typically entrepreneur story, Kevin started in his basement with zero cash and within a matter of years, his basement company called SoftKey became a billion-dollar consolidator in the educational software market, buying out all of its competitors. He is a prime example of a true entrepreneur in that he became a billionaire over a span of LESS than 10 years! Afterwards he founded O’Leary Funds, a mutual fund company, which made hundreds of millions of dollars from investors. The amount of time he made that much money would take an average worker about two lifetimes to earn, if not longer. Kevin had a big idea, stating that his mission was for SoftKey to become “the Campbell’s Soup of software” – a very RISKY but innovative idea since computers were only starting to become popular in the 90’s; the market for software learning programs and computers alone were very small, however they were expanding at a rapid pace. Being an entrepreneur, O”Leary exploited the market and produced a qualitative product thus making him a extremely rich man.

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-Alexander

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