The James Altucher Show - Daymond John

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I stood outside the Colosseum Mall iin Jamaica, Queens. Just shivering with a bag of hats. I sold $800 worth of hats in an hour,” Daymond John tells me.

“I remember it like it was yesterday. It was Good Friday, 1989, at 3:30 in the afternoon. It was 37 degrees outside. I stood outside the Colosseum Mall, a mall in Jamaica, Queens. It’s pretty popular. Just shivering with a bag of hats. I sold $800 worth of hats in an hour,” Daymond John tells me. Before FUBU (a $6 billion global apparel company), before Shark Tank, and before Obama chose him as the Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship, Daymond John worked 18-hour days driving a delivery van. And he wasn’t making money. His paychecks covered overhead – the cost of his van, gas, and maintenance. He worked to make money, and he made money to work. “When I took…from archive.jamesaltucher.com

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