‘Shark Tank’ Star Daymond John Speaks To Bowie State Students

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Aspiring entrepreneurs astatine Bowie State University are getting an accidental to aquatics with a shark — oregon alternatively “Shark Tank” prima Daymond John.

John is among respective concern leaders selected arsenic keynote speakers for the university’s inaugural HBCU Entrepreneurship Conference, which brings unneurotic implicit 400 professors and students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities to stock champion practices and ideas for launching palmy startups.

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The 52-year-old concern mogul and laminitis of the FUBU manner marque is known for his no-nonsense negotiations connected “Shark Tank,” an ABC world TV bid that gives inventors and entrepreneurs a accidental to transportation their concern ventures to investors including John and Dallas Mavericks proprietor Mark Cuban.

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Besides John, attendees of Bowie State’s virtual league get to perceive from rapper and entrepreneur Percy “Master P” Miller, Black Girl Ventures laminitis Shelly Bell, writer and Operation Hope CEO John Hope Bryant, and Eddie and Sylvia Brown of Brown Capital Management.

“This lawsuit volition empower radical to assistance foster their entrepreneurial spirit,” said Johnetta Boseman Hardy, Executive Director, BSU Entrepreneurship Academy. “Bowie State is boldly paving the mode to prosperity by laying the instauration and gathering a cognition base.”

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The two-day virtual league runs Thursday done Friday.

CBS Baltimore Staff