How Shark Tank is Destroying the Potential for Social Enterprise

Kevin O’Leary, one of the show’s “sharks,” defines business success in a very black and white manner: “Either you make money or you lose money.” While it is true a business requires money to survive, there are clearly many other potential measures for defining whether an entrepreneur has a “successful” idea. For this reason, the narrow measures of success that Shark Tank offers its naive and gullible (no disrespect to the general public) audience is poison to the potential for social enterprise.