Daymond John
Founder & CEO, FUBU. On 3 shows, 4 appearances, plus 3 compilation re-airs not counted. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Daymond John is an entrepreneur and investor best known as the founder of the streetwear apparel brand FUBU and an original investor on ABC's Shark Tank. He also leads the brand management and consulting firm The Shark Group and has authored bestselling books, including The Power of Broke and Rise and Grind.
3shows
4appearances
76statements
11resolved
8supported
2contradicted
73%fully supported
28said about them ↓ Everything Daymond John said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Daymond John: AI disruption will trigger civil war in the US
“Because AI is going to turn this country into a civil war. Because when the have-nots don't have anything, they're coming after us.”
Daymond John: Wealthy founders seeking Shark Tank publicity are 'selfish bastards'
“If you have two million dollars in the bank, and you have your hat in your hand asking for money, and you have no no, you don't plan on closing a shark, you took that slot away from a family who risked everything, who their kids are not going to college, they'…”
Retailer Asked Daymond John to Remove Founders' Photos For Looking 'Gang'
“A large retailer did ask me to take the picture of myself and my three other partners off the hang tag, cause it said we look like a gang.”
Daymond John: Big-Box Retail Puts More Brands Out of Business Than It Helps
“So by the way, when you go to retail. You do four times the amount of work for half of the reward, right? Because you know, you now have to deal with buyers. You had to become a vendor record. You have to ship it. And by the way, you know, the larger companies…”
Daymond John: I am not leaving any inheritance to my children
“Because I'm not leaving them anything. You know, I put it in my kid's head ever since I was young that, and then, that they were young, that they were not going to get anything.”
Daymond John: I could make FUBU a billion-dollar brand again
“Could I make it a probably
A billion dollar brand again?
Yes, I could. It would be a whole different model.”
Daymond John: Shark Tank hits 3 in 10 winners versus VC's 2 in 10
“You know, I think two out of 10 is winners. I think we have three out of 10 because we have a baked in commercial.”
Daymond John: Tesla robots will cost $30k in two years and $5k in five
“Well, I think that if robots are going to be 30,000 dollars a piece from, what do you call it? Tesla? In two years? They're going to be 5000 in five years.”
Daymond John: I hold the most successful investment in Shark Tank history
“Well, I tell everybody
Whenever I can, that I'm the lead shark with the most successful investment in history, shark tank history on all the shark tanks that exist around the world.”
Daymond John: Flying private is a waste of time
“Flying private is a waste of time. Don't do it for other people's reasons.”
Daymond John: Nike uses custom shoe orders to design next year's lines
“Nike still gets it right, in a sense and I'll just say a reason why. You know, they'll do a custom shoe for one person. You'll say a thirty billion dollar company doing a custom shoe for one person. What they're doing is they're putting that algorithm together…”
Daymond John: Apparel brands make almost no profit outside jeans and t-shirts
“Clothing makes almost zero money off of anything else besides jeans and t-shirts.”
Daymond John: Sharks close about 60% of on-air deals after 6-9 months
“Takes us six to nine months to close the deals. We close about 60% of the deals.”
Daymond John uses one-year non-shopping agreement to screen Shark Tank founders
“After we do the deal, you know in a handshake, I walk over to them and I send, I give them a piece of paper, very short one, and say, take it to your attorney. And it says on there something like, you know You're not gonna publicly shop this deal for another y…”
Daymond John: High school trade grads earn $70k, matching college grads
“A kid graduating college today is gonna barely make 70, 80,000. A kid who does a trade, like in my buddy Crash Champions, or HVAC, or these things that people don't want to do anymore, they're making 70,000 coming out of high school.”
Daymond John: Billboards Are Today's Most Powerful Marketing Medium
“You know what's the most powerful thing you could do now? Billboards. You can't swipe a billboard when you're on a highway.”
Daymond John: I Have Advised Every Living US President
“And I've advised every single living president till today, they haven't asked me for money, I can walk into any room, and they know who I am, and my name, I can open any company I want to, and I can walk into any room I want to, because my name goes in the roo…”
Daymond John: Turned Down $1.3 Billion Credit Line from Major Bank
“I'm not a billionaire. I'm not a billionaire by choice. I'm offered often, ah, you know, ah, huge venture deals, ah, a bank, very famous, well, the one of the most powerful banks said to me, Damien, you know what? I'll give you a 1.3 billion credit line.”
John: Most challenges stem from lack of money and financial literacy
“Most of the challenges we have come from the lack of money and the lack of information or what to do with money.”
Daymond John Calculated McDonald's Paid More Than Dealing Drugs Risk-Adjusted
“I remember doing the math one day about you know, if I were to work in McDonald's, and if I were to sell drugs over the course of five years, where, when I make more money, and it looked like I would make more money at McDonald's. Because if you look at the dr…”
Daymond John: Founders unable to answer 'why me, why now' offer copycat products
“So I always ask founders and say, you know, you can't answer why me? Why now? And why this? Then you have a me too product, but you have to add all the time to your career, be able to say, why me? Why now? And why this?”
Daymond John: Big Retail Chains Track Mom-and-Pop Stores for Trends
“The mom and pop stores are always, they're always much better. The big stores go to the mom and pop stores to look at what is moving.”
Daymond John: Retaining niche origin story will not alienate broader buyers
“I think that jujitsu, first of all, is the natural history. That's the fubu for us by us. And I think it's a little too early to hop off of that because you want to hang on to something. It does not mean it's going to alienate anybody”
The other half of the tape: Daymond John's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 21 times in 5 episodes across the shows. 7 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →
Who brings them up most Codie Sanchez 12Guy Raz 7Aaron Krause 2
Statements about Daymond John, by other people (7)
Spikeball's Shark Tank Deal With Daymond John Collapsed Over Licensing
“And when we talked about sort of what direction it would be or what do we want to do, his main interest lied in licensing. So I think he said something along the lines of, you know, Chris, I've got friends at Marvel Comics. Let's maybe explore like a Spider-Ma…”
Heath: Bombas closed $1M seed and renegotiated Daymond John deal
“And we just closed our million dollars of seed funding and basically said, look, we don't need any more cash. So, you know, can we renegotiate the deal to provide you with some upside with no kind of cash investment? And the two of us Damon and Bombas came to …”
Heath: Daymond John was Bombas' number one Shark Tank target
“We had a hierarchy of sharks that we thought were better fits for us than others. You know, ending up with Damon, you know, built a billion dollar apparel brand New York based obviously was our number one choice. It's who we ended up with. But we had a strateg…”
Hoffman: Twist It Up secured $225k from Cuban and Daymond John
“He walked out of there with a joint investment from Mark Cuban and Damon John of 225,000 dollars for 25% equity.”
Guy Raz: Daymond John Invested $8.5M in Shark Tank Companies
“As for Shark Tank, he's put about Eight and a half million of his own dollars into companies featured on the show.”
FUBU Has Sold Over $6 Billion in Apparel to Date
“It's a brand that, to date, has sold over six billion dollars in apparel.”
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BigDeal 12
How I Built This 9
2026 8 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode
2025 6 mentions in 1 episode
2023 6 mentions in 1 episode
2018 1 mention in 1 episode
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Daymond's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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| HOW I BUILT THISLEDGER | Founder & CEO, FUBU | 3 +1 | 42 | 100% 5/5 | full record on How I Built This → |
| BIGDEALLEDGER | Founder & CEO, FUBU | 1 | 32 | 50% 3/6 | full record on BigDeal → |
 MASTERS OF SCALELEDGER | Founder & CEO, FUBU | 0 +2 | 2 | — | full record on Masters of Scale → |