Folks,
If you have not watched this TV series called "Shark Tank" yet, find the time to catch an episode or two. It's quite a blast watching these "neophytes" pitching to 5 big "sharks" - all wildly successful individuals from IT to Retail - for their investment money. It never fails to remind me of the sharks of our times like:
- Vasenwala of Ngee Ann Poly
- Dr Joe Chen of Seagate
- one or two from our VARs network, who shall remain nameless
and many more..
The show will also bring back those stomach-churning moments when, after our presentations to customers, we walked off empty-handed, or triumphantly with a huge PO!
Keep a lookout for that bald-headed shark..
Melvin, this show will be of great interest to you, given that you are not just one of the sharks already, but you are actually living it, everyday ..just like that bald-headed shark, but with way more hair, of course.
(Shark Tank is on Starhub Ch 407 every Monday, with plenty of repeats. Actually, the Brit version is just as good, called Dragon's Den)


We can certainly learn a thing of two from the sharks - how not to be emotional about investments, and it's only all about "money" ROI (for better of for worse), not so much about how passionate we are about the product or business ! They are ruthless, yet sometimes we need to be hard-nose about our investments. Dragon's Den (the Brits)is lot more tactful/civilised whilst Shark Tank is more sharp-tongue, esp the bald guy. But definitely, they present the hard truths about managing investments :(
ReplyDeleteYes Pat, and he (the bald caucasian one) is the one tt makes it so watchable, just like Simon Cowell.
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