Website www.lorigreiner.com Spouse Dan Greiner Name Lori Greiner | Role Inventor Nationality American | |
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Residence Chicago, Illinois, U.S.Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. Occupation Inventor, entrepreneur, television personality, author Books Invent It, Sell It, Bank It!: Make Your Million-Dollar Idea Into a Reality Similar People Robert Herjavec, Barbara Corcoran, Mark Cuban, Daymond John, Kevin O'Leary Profiles | ||
Turning your big idea into a reality with lori greiner
Lori Greiner (born December 9, 1969) is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and television personality. She is best known as a cast member of the reality TV show Shark Tank and has been called "The Queen of QVC". She has also appeared on its spin-off, Beyond the Tank. Since 1998, she has had a program on QVC called Clever & Unique Creations Show. She is also president and founder of the Chicago company For Your Ease Only, Inc., which she established in 1996 and which does product development and marketing. She has helped launch more than 400 products and holds 120 U.S. and foreign patents.
Contents
- Turning your big idea into a reality with lori greiner
- Entrepreneur inventor lori greiner
- Early life
- Career
- Shark Tank
- Selected publications
- References
Entrepreneur inventor lori greiner
Early life
Greiner grew up on the Near North Side, Chicago, the second daughter of a real estate developer father and a psychologist mother. Her parents divorced when she was nine years old. She majored in communications, focusing on journalism, television, and film at Loyola University Chicago, and worked for the Chicago Tribune while in college. She was briefly a playwright and also sold her own jewelry on the side.
Career
Greiner created an intricate box to organize earrings which she later patented. Using borrowed money, she created a sample product which was picked up by J.C. Penney before the holiday season. Eighteen months later the product had reportedly "made her rich."
Shark Tank
In 2012, Greiner joined the US TV series Shark Tank and has been called "the warm-blooded shark". In 2014, her investment in Scrub Daddy, a company which produces a texture changing household sponge (the material is stiff in cold water but soft when warm), was noted as a great success. On July 30, 2014, she sold more than 2 million sponges on QVC (in one day alone).
As of April 30, 2016, Scrub Daddy still reigns as “the biggest success story in Shark Tank history” with sales over $75 million and a growing product line sold in a myriad of stores.
Other investments by Lori Greiner in the top 18 Shark Tank deals, as of April 30, 2016, include Squatty Potty, Readerest, Paint Brush Cover, Hold Your Haunches, Drop Stop, FiberFix, Simply Fit Board, and Screenmend.
In 2011, Greiner spoke at the first United States Patent and Trademark Office Women's Entrepreneurship Symposium. In March 2014, she published the book Invent it, Sell it, Bank it! – Make Your Million Dollar Idea into a Reality, which reached #3 on the Wall Street Journal's bestseller list.