Kevin O'Leary sends letter to Wynne

[hobbyguy]

You WANT to be suckered and fleeced by Kevin???

[d0nb]

I doubt that Kevin has the time or inclination to master a redundant language at this stage of his rather busy and successful life, so replacing the Neveready Bunny as PM isn't in the cards .

If O'Leary really wants to help his country, he can concentrate on getting rid of the Libs in Ontario. His letter is a welcome start.

[The Green Barbarian]

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[The Green Barbarian]

You WANT to be suckered and fleeced by Kevin???

as opposed to being suckered and fleeced by Justin???

[hobbyguy]

IF you read the article I posted, Kevin is a failed businessman. Yup, everything he touches goes to crud. Except for one thing, promoting Kevin and nicking a little money for Kevin along the way. The very last person one should take any "advice" from. He is just a self serving conman and his attacks on Wynne are NOT based on anything but getting Kevin's name in the news, which makes him money because it raises his profile as a "celebrity". "Celebrating" loud mouth wazzoks like Kevin is just dumber than dumb.

[d0nb]

Ad hominem attacks are to be expected where O'Leary is concerned, but they have no bearing on the validity of the questions he has raised about the practices of the Wynne Government. To suggest that he is raising these questions because he is an anti-lesbian bigot is to abandon sensible argument.

Bruce Livesey's critique of O'Leary only serves to remind us how good the old huckster is at landing on his feet. Kevin is apparently quite good at playing the system, and when such people offer a critique of the questionable practices of others, it could be assumed that they speak from a position of some authority.

[bob vernon]

I just hope we can see a return to good Conservative values. We need to free up the entrepreneurial spirit of this country and we need a guy like O'Leary to do it. Things like shoving those gas and oil pipelines to the west coast, using the military if necessary to guard the lines. And allowing China to bring in their workers, at their wages, to build and maintain the line. That'll spark this nation.

[dontrump]

IF you read the article I posted, Kevin is a failed businessman. Yup, everything he touches goes to crud. Except for one thing, promoting Kevin and nicking a little money for Kevin along the way. The very last person one should take any "advice" from. He is just a self serving conman and his attacks on Wynne are NOT based on anything but getting Kevin's name in the news, which makes him money because it raises his profile as a "celebrity". "Celebrating" loud mouth wazzoks like Kevin is just dumber than dumb.

if hes a failed business man how come he has made so much money? all attacks on wynn are totally warrented as for the life of me I have no idea how she ever got to where she has? there must be a large load of dimwitted Ontario voters is all I can see

http://www.celebritynetworth.com/riches ... net-worth/

[hobbyguy]

Kevin O'Leery makes his money from being a "celebrity":

"After business school, he set up a television production company that produced shows for people like Don Cherry. From watching Cherry, O’Leary learned that it was important never to be boring or small on TV."

"“He’s an ignorant man,” says Rosen, one of Canada’s leading forensic accountants. “He was trying to kill us every time. We would see each other and almost spit on each other.”

"Henry Mintzberg, the Cleghorn professor of management studies at McGill University, believes O’Leary’s depiction of a business leader is pejorative. “Pitbull (executives) don’t add anything at all,” he said in an interview with this reporter back in 2012. Mintzberg said in the US there’s been the emergence of the “cult of heroic leadership” within corporations. “The tendency there… is to attribute any success of the company to one person,” he remarked. But Mintzberg said companies function best when CEO’s recognize that companies are collaborative efforts and they show flexibility and emotional health. O’Leary, on the other hand, “is obviously an arch narcissist,” noted Mintzberg. “I don’t know how he manages his companies, but his stereotype is dysfunctional.”

"In the end, O’Leary would be the hood ornament to woo investors; he hired former Wall Street investment banker Connor O’Brien to be the portfolio manager."

"In the end, O’Leary succeeded in becoming a millionaire. But more so because he learned how to turn himself into a celebrity and not because of his business acumen. "

Kevin knows diddly - he probably got through university by buying essays. He is: "an ignorant man", "an arch narcissist", a "hood ornament", who skimmed other people's money and makes his money by emulating Don Cherry as an outrageous loud mouth. (My apologies to Don Cherry, at least he knows his subject.)

Kevin made money by being a con man and creating loud mouth celebrity status, plain an simple. He knew that would bring him the suckers into "his" investment funds (which failed and which were paying folks "dividends" using their own money).

In other words, there is absolutely zero to recommend Kevin O'Leery, and everything to recommend not having the guy anywhere near power or anywhere your bank account.

Quotes from: http://www.nationalobserver.com/2016/01/26/news/real-and-shocking-story-kevin-olearys-business-career

[The Green Barbarian]

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[The Green Barbarian]

Ad hominem attacks are to be expected where O'Leary is concerned, but they have no bearing on the validity of the questions he has raised about the practices of the Wynne Government. To suggest that he is raising these questions because he is an anti-lesbian bigot is to abandon sensible argument.

*removed* My question is - why is O'Leary the one bringing this nefarious and disgusting behaviour of Wynne to our attention? Where is the media???

[The Green Barbarian]

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Kevin O'Leery makes his money from being a "celebrity":

"After business school, he set up a television production company that produced shows for people like Don Cherry. From watching Cherry, O’Leary learned that it was important never to be boring or small on TV."

"“He’s an ignorant man,” says Rosen, one of Canada’s leading forensic accountants. “He was trying to kill us every time. We would see each other and almost spit on each other.”

"Henry Mintzberg, the Cleghorn professor of management studies at McGill University, believes O’Leary’s depiction of a business leader is pejorative. “Pitbull (executives) don’t add anything at all,” he said in an interview with this reporter back in 2012. Mintzberg said in the US there’s been the emergence of the “cult of heroic leadership” within corporations. “The tendency there… is to attribute any success of the company to one person,” he remarked. But Mintzberg said companies function best when CEO’s recognize that companies are collaborative efforts and they show flexibility and emotional health. O’Leary, on the other hand, “is obviously an arch narcissist,” noted Mintzberg. “I don’t know how he manages his companies, but his stereotype is dysfunctional.”

"In the end, O’Leary would be the hood ornament to woo investors; he hired former Wall Street investment banker Connor O’Brien to be the portfolio manager."

"In the end, O’Leary succeeded in becoming a millionaire. But more so because he learned how to turn himself into a celebrity and not because of his business acumen. "

Kevin knows diddly - he probably got through university by buying essays. He is: "an ignorant man", "an arch narcissist", a "hood ornament", who skimmed other people's money and makes his money by emulating Don Cherry as an outrageous loud mouth. (My apologies to Don Cherry, at least he knows his subject.)

Kevin made money by being a con man and creating loud mouth celebrity status, plain an simple. He knew that would bring him the suckers into "his" investment funds (which failed and which were paying folks "dividends" using their own money).

In other words, there is absolutely zero to recommend Kevin O'Leery, and everything to recommend not having the guy anywhere near power or anywhere your bank account.

Quotes from: http://www.nationalobserver.com/2016/01/26/news/real-and-shocking-story-kevin-olearys-business-career

I am pretty sure O'learly made his wealth from building a successful education software company from his moms basement during the tech bubble. I would say he is not lacking in business acumen, but perhaps not the greatest. His mutual fund business makes him(not his clients) good money too.

[hobbyguy]

Softkey does NOT appear to have made any money. Kevin made his money out of Softkey (renamed TLC) by suckering Mattel, who lost billions, and fired Kevin. The business itself appears to not have been a software company, but a marketing and acquisitions company - a low grade hedge fund type operation.

In point of fact, Kevin's company was partially responsible for the demise of several promising software brands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftKey

"Softkey was a billion-dollar consolidator in the educational software market, acquiring no fewer than sixty rivals, such as WordStar, Brøderbund and Spinnaker Software. It then moved to Boston and took the name of one of its acquisitions, The Learning Company"

"GTG said of TLC's business structure, "[it] was a textbook example of a business built mostly by cobbled-together acquisitions, which were then purchased by a larger company with little idea of how to make the pieces fit together." Said James Bailey, President of GTG, "there were seven separate Internet initiatives, all run by different people. Some of these people had never met each other, even though they worked in the same building." In 2001, Gores sold The Learning Company's entertainment holdings to Ubisoft, and most of the other holdings to Irish company Riverdeep."

That hardly sounds like a well run company, no wonder Mattel dumped Kevin.

As the article I posted before correctly identifies, Kevin is a "blowhard". He yaks up a good game, bullies anyone who challenges him, but when you look at his actual business acumen - it ain't there. "He couldn't run a popcorn stand".

http://strategyonline.ca/1992/11/16/6696-19921116/

Kevin himself knew zip about software and the necessaries to run a successful creative venture. In Kevin's own words:

"Kevin O’Leary credits much of his software company’s phenomenal success to the lessons he learned from marketing cat food."

"What’s inside the box is important, but it’s not as important as how it’s marketed."

And if you want think about how full of "stuff" Kevin is, this segment is just hilarious:

"That is why you will now find Softkey goods at retailers that two years ago were never in the software business, such as a large California chain better known for its fish and tackle department.

O’Leary says fishing is a major pastime in California, adding most of the people who fish also own a computer."

What load of nonsense.

Kevin was a darn catfood salesman who saw the "computer/dot.com" craze and and conned himself an angle to get in on it. His only skill? Being a bs artist. I grant you, a good bs artist, but that's it. He actually really couldn't run a popcorn stand and didn't have any real understanding (or interest in) of the products, it was just something he figured he market to suckers. And he did.

So you think a "blowhard" cat food salesman should run for PM? Or really knows anything about running a business?

If so, I have bridge in Brooklyn for sale...

[oneh2obabe]

Since it's been established how O'Leary made or didn't make his money, now would be a good time to veer back on topic.