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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.”
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: 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: 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: 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: 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 says Bombas is the most successful Shark Tank product
“Sometimes it's why Bomba Socks is the most successful product in Shark Tank history.”
Daymond John: Black and white garments account for roughly 80% of apparel sales
“In the business, for the most part, almost 60% of all sales and clothing is black. 20% is white. The rest is just sprinkled in between.”
Daymond John: Scrub Daddy Has Sold $1.3B in Sponges
“1.3 billion dollars worth of sponges. She's slinging plastic like Happy Meals.”
John: FUBU booked $300,000 in orders without a trade show booth
“So it worked it out, and you know, we would write 300,000 dollars in orders, and that's when I would realize how much capital I really needed.”
Samsung agreed to finance FUBU if it reached $5M sales in 3 years
“And the deal with us was that they would finance the manufacture and manufacturing and distribution of our product, but we had to sell five million dollars worth of clothes in three years to keep the deal.”
FUBU generated $30 million in sales in three months after partnering with Samsung
“But I had known my customers so well because of all those things that I was doing that as we started to put the brand out there, we did about thirty million dollars in three months.”
FUBU generated $300,000 in orders pitching from a MAGIC hotel room
“It worked it out, and you know, we would write 300,000 dollars in orders, and that's when I would realize how much capital I really needed.”
Daymond John's mother took out a $100,000 home equity loan for FUBU
“So she goes out and she gets a 100,000 dollar loan on our house.”
FUBU generated $30 million in sales within three months of financing
“As we started to put the brand out there, we did about thirty million dollars in three months.”
Daymond John Was Rejected by 27 Banks for Early FUBU Financing
“So, I went to all the banks I could, and I got turned down by 27 of them.”
Daymond John: FUBU Reused 10 Shirts Across 22 Music Video Sets
“I took 10 shirts for two years, The same 10. I'd go to every video set I could. I went to 40 video sets. I got kicked off of 18 of them, but the 22 that I got on, I would put an artist, and he'd shoot the video, and I'd take it back.”
Daymond John: FUBU Spray-Painted 300 Storefront Gates Across NY and NJ
“I spray painted 300 gates from New York to New Jersey. Authorized FUBU dealer. I didn't care that you were selling Chinese food. You were an authorized FUBU dealer.”
Daymond John: Eight of the 12 Shark Tank Investors Are Dyslexic
“I think that being dyslexic, I always say eight of the 12 sharks are dyslexic.”
Daymond John: NY-CA private round trip costs $100,000
“If I go to California, New York, round trip is a 100,000 dollars privately.”
Daymond John: Average Shark Tank pitch lasts 30 to 60 minutes
“An average pitch is one hour long, maybe half an hour to an hour long. 16 cameras shooting it. So an hour pitch is 16 hours of footage for you to see eight minutes.”
Daymond John: Only 96 of 40,000 Shark Tank applicants air per season
“You're only gonna have about 96 people that air. A thousand people will see the producers and 40,000 people applied.”
Daymond John made and sold out 80 handmade FUBU hats in hours
“So I made 80 of them. It took me probably about three hours. I made 80 of them, and I hit that street corner, and I sold all of them.”
Daymond John: FUBU closed three times between 1989 and 1992
“Through 89 and 92, I closed the business three times because I ran out of money.”
John: FUBU founders racked up $50,000 in credit card debt
“So of course, you know, like many businesses, I leveraged my credit cards you know, up until I think my partners and I, all of us leveraged our credit cards up to about 50,000 dollars with a very high interest rate, which is not the smartest thing to do.”
Daymond John: 27 banks rejected FUBU loan applications
“So I went to all the banks I could, and I got turned down by 27 of them.”
Daymond John's mother took $100,000 home equity loan to fund FUBU
“So she goes out and she gets a 100,000 dollar loan on our house.”
John: FUBU fulfilled $75K in orders before reaching $500 bank balance
“I think we filled about 75,000 dollars worth of those orders until I turned around and I only had 500 dollars left in the bank, and I was about four months late on the mortgage.”
Daymond John closed FUBU three times between 1989 and 1992
“And to say that, I also have to say that through 89 and 92, I closed the business three times because I ran out of money.”
Daymond John says 27 banks rejected FUBU's early loan applications
“I went to all the banks I could, and I got turned down by 27 of them.”
Jordache's FUBU license generated $100 million in ladies' apparel revenue
“Jordache was our first license and they came aboard and they started doing ladies clothes. So now we're doing a hundred, say, a hundred and fifty million in men's. They're doing a hundred million alone in ladies.”
Daymond John: Shark Tank producers discovered him on Donny Deutsch's show
“The way that I got onto Shark Tank was because they actually saw me on Donnie Deutsch. What was that called? The Big Idea. And they realized that I could take a pitch”
Daymond John studied Red Lobster P&L statements while working as a waiter
“I was having a great time as a waiter but I was also learning from Red Lobster, you know, they would issue these quarterly books on, you know, their P&Ls, basically, and what was working, what wasn't working.”
Daymond John: Girlfriend Rejected Initial $500 Startup Loan for FUBU
“And then one day I asked her to borrow 800 dollars. No, I asked her to borrow 500 dollars for this idea I had called FUBU. And she said no.”
Daymond John's mother blocked him from touring as a Whodini breakdancer
“At one point, I did get an offer to dance for a group named Houdini. Sure, yeah. They were going on tour. I got an offer to breakdance for them, and my mother said, no way in the world are you going on tour.”
Daymond John studied Red Lobster's quarterly P&L statements as a waiter
“I was having a great time as a waiter but I was also learning from Red Lobster, you know, they would issue these quarterly books on, you know, their P&Ls basically, and what was working, what wasn't working.”