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Kevin Harrington: Success Catalyst
Kevin's Bio: Entrepreneur, Pioneer, & Business Shark
Kevin Harrington has been a successful entrepreneur for over 40 years. He’s an original “Shark” on the Emmy-winning TV show, Shark Tank. He is also the Inventor of the Infomercial, As Seen On TV Pioneer, Co-Founder of the Electronic Retailers Association (ERA) and Co-Founding board member of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO).
Where He Started
Kevin got his start as a young entrepreneur in the early 80s when he invested $25,000 and launched Quantum International. This turned into a $500 million/year business on the New York Stock Exchange and drove the stock price from $1 to $20 per share. After selling his interest in Quantum International, he formed a joint venture with the Home Shopping Network, called HSN Direct, which grew to hundreds of millions of dollars in sales. Entrepreneur Magazine has called himone of the top Entrepreneurs of our time.
Proven Track Record
Kevin has launched over 20 businesses that have grown to over $100 million in sale
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Kevin Harrington (entrepreneur)
American businessman, investor and television personality
Kevin Harrington (born October 15, 1956) is an American businessman who is best known for his appearances on the television series Shark Tank.
Career
In 1985, he created his first infomercial after identifying an opportunity to utilize the late-night and early-morning dead air time on cable networks. While companies like Vitamix had been producing infomercial programs for TV broadcasters since 1949, Harrington's innovation of replacing the traditional off-air time with entertaining and informative advertising pioneered the modern infomercial format. As President of National Media, he personally oversaw the launch of several successful infomercials.[1]
After leaving National Media in 1994, he entered a "joint venture company with The Home Shopping Network" and "co-founded HSN Direct International Inc., where he served as CEO and president from 1994 to 1998. In 2002, he assumed the role of President at Harrington Business Development Inc. and concurrently served as
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Kevin Harrington Keynote Speaker
Kevin Harrington – Inventor of the Infomercial, Original Shark on Shark Tank and As Seen on TV Pioneer – is one of the most successful entrepreneurs of our time.
In the early 1980’s, Harrington was busy launching companies and working as both a real estate and business broker selling thousands of properties and thousands of businesses. While watching television one night in 1984, he noticed that sometimes the only thing on the screen were the color test bars that stations ran when they had nothing else to air, thus giving him the idea to produce the industry’s first 30-minute infomercial to fill that dead air space. Thus, the birth of the infomercial.
Since that fateful night, he has been involved with over 500 product launches that resulted in sales of over $4 billion dollars worldwide and 20 products that reached individual sales of over $100 million. By 1990, Harrington was named one of the 100 best entrepreneurs in the world (by Entrepreneur Magazine).
In the mid 1980’s, Harrington formed Quantum International which grew to $500 millio
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