Kevin O’Leary Puts His Money Where the Profits Are

For the past 10 years, the reality TV show Shark Tank has entertained and edified millions of viewers by dramatizing how entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to venture capitalists. None of the “sharks”—the investors who compete with each other to fund businesses they think will be successful—is more entertaining or edifying than Kevin O’Leary, whose signature insult to unsuccessful contestants (“you’re dead to me”) has become a pop-culture catchphrase.

But O’Leary isn’t just a. Nick Gillespie spoke with O’Leary in August at the annual FreedomFest conference in Las Vegas.