Shark Tank's Mr. Wonderful Only Makes Money Off Companies Led by Women

O’Leary discovered this by accident. He asked his staff to see what all of the companies providing returns to his portfolios had in common, and it found that the companies returning on O’Leary’s investments were all led by women.

“What’s interesting is that these are companies across multiple sectors,” he told Business Insider. “One is a company in the food business. Another is in consumer goods. Another is a manufacturing company. One is a biotech company. They have nothing to do with each other, and yet, they’re still getting better returns.”

Hell yeah, Mr. Wonderful. He says his portfolio has been divided evenly across genders “for about six years,” but not deliberately or anything, okay?

“I just looked at deals,” he said. “I never looked at gender. I have no bias. I want to make money. I’m trying to find the path of least resistance with the best people I can find. I’m agnostic to where they came from.”

Good, good; cool, cool. Equality predicated on instinct rather than an explicit agenda is always very chill in my eyes—a recent Silicon Valley scene where Gabe from The Office tries to hire a superstar (female) coder in the most awkward way possible is a great example of the opposite—but hey, maybe Mr. Wonderful should develop a little bit of gender bias? Against men, I mean. Just for the sake of making more mo-ney.