Benard Obi

SOME NEWS 🚨 this year I'm joining Shark Tank USA!!! 📺 🇺🇸 this was a dream of mine AND my mums...let me explain👇🏾 My nigerian mum raised 4 of us without being able to read or write herself, having left school when she was a child in Nigeria. I struggled with school too - I wasn't a smart kid and couldn't pay attention, so I quickly realised the "traditional path" wasn't going to work for someone like me Then, when I was 12 years old, I discovered Dragons' Den! 🐉 Me and my mum both fell in love with the show. Looking back, I think entrepreneurship offered us both hope - a path to a better life for people like us, who couldn't pass tests in a classroom but were willing to work hard. At 12 I would pause the TV and give my verdict, as if I was the 6th Dragon By 16 I'd discovered Shark Tank and was starting my first (terrible) businesses By 18 I was a university dropout with a start-up And somehow, 9 years later, I ended up sitting in one of those Dragons' Den chairs I used to shout at from our sofa My mum has never fully gotten over it. When I call her today, 6 years later, the conversation is still 80% Dragons' Den - her opinion on what I said, the businesses, what SHE would have done... Btw, i'm genuinely not sure if she knows I have a podcast 😂 i don't think she's ever mentioned it 😅 But she knows Dragons' Den, and that's more than enough for her. I know she's always wanted me to do Shark Tank, so this phone call - telling her that day had come absolutely made my day, and hopefully her's too! I very much hope to do her proud + all of you that have supported me for the longest time... wish me luck!! 👊🏾❤️ P.S who would win in a fight, a shark 🦈 or a dragon 🐉 ???