Mohammed

 

For my product, I will work with Marcus because  I think the profit is way better than the shark tank In the past 10 years, Marcus successfully turned around over 100 companies. Now he’s bringing those skills to CNBC and doing something no one has ever done on TV before … he’s putting millions of dollars of his own money on the line. In each episode, Lemonis makes an offer that’s impossible to refuse; his cash for a piece of the business and a percentage of the profits. And once inside these companies, he’ll do almost anything to save the business and make himself a profit; even if it means firing the president, promoting the secretary or doing the work himself.

Marcus Lemonis is not a consultant on the show, he doesn’t come in and tell people how to run their business better for ratings or for an hourly fee.  Instead, he buys into the business making himself a partner with the founder(s)…and then tells them how he would do things better (and usually forcefully insists that they follow his ideas

For me, the profit is shark tank on steroids.  It takes all that is good about shark tank, introduction of a new business (the pitch) and negotiations, but instead of ending there you actually get to see the changes the expert (Sharks vs Marcus) implement.  I think the main difference is the purpose of both shows.  In my opinion Shark Tank is produced to highlight the negotiations (the what), whereas The Profit is produced to show the business getting to the next level (the how and why