"We weren't paid for any episode." As it looks like Ashneer Grover is not going to be a part of Shark Tank India season 2, hear him share juicy secrets from his days as a judge on the show's first season. He was speaking at Lovely Professional University in Punjab back in April. 👀😱
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00:00I'll tell you the truth, we didn't make any money in Shark Tank, okay?
00:04Someone put something on YouTube, they used to get Rs. 10 lakhs per episode.
00:08Shark Tank auditions were also held at my house, they are very poor people, they don't even have a venue.
00:27This is all stupidity.
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00:59I would say I was a very private person till last August.
01:02Let me tell you how private I was.
01:04I had 236 followers on Instagram.
01:11236.
01:12And my account was private.
01:14And I used to follow 336 people.
01:18Last year, out of the blue, Shark Tank India team approached me.
01:23And they said, sir, you have to come to Shark Tank.
01:27Now, the funny part is, I had never seen Shark Tank.
01:31So I knew it was a good thing.
01:33Because the Gen Z, the millenial crowd, whenever they met, they used to talk about Shark Tank.
01:39But of the US Shark Tank.
01:41So I knew that I have to go, I have to sit.
01:44Someone will come to pitch.
01:46You have to take a call at that time to say yes or no.
01:48And that's the simple concept.
01:50All the judges in Shark Tank, I already knew Anupam.
01:55I pitched Anupam.
01:57When I was in India, I said, sir, you have to pitch.
01:59But he took an extra month to say yes.
02:03Then I got the money from the investor.
02:05Then I said no.
02:08Apart from that, Vinita was my junior in IIM Ahmedabad.
02:13So we talked eye to eye.
02:16But we never actually talked.
02:18We never actually talked.
02:23I mean, Vinita was a very tough girl in my junior batch.
02:31But later, she was doing well, I knew that.
02:35And there's a lot of mutual respect I have for her.
02:38Rest, Aman, there are a lot of people.
02:42I met him for the first time at my house.
02:44Shark Tank auditions were also held at my house.
02:47I mean, they are very poor people.
02:48They don't even have a venue.
02:50So let me tell you the truth.
02:52We didn't make any money in Shark Tank.
02:55Someone put something on YouTube.
02:57I used to get 10 lakh rupees per episode.
03:00I mean, if you get 5 lakh rupees, it's a big deal.
03:05Nothing happened.
03:06The show concept is very simple.
03:08They believe we have money.
03:10Right?
03:11So that is the first belief.
03:12We were not paid anything for any episode.
03:14Forget it.
03:15I mean, we have done bonded labor work.
03:18We used to reach the set at 8 in the morning.
03:20Sometimes we used to leave at 11 or 12 at night.
03:23So we have put in very, very long hours.
03:25But why we were doing it?
03:28There are two reasons for that.
03:29Right?
03:30One, personally, everyone wanted to be famous.
03:32Right?
03:33I mean, I can say as much as I want.
03:36We don't want fame.
03:38But everyone wanted it somewhere.
03:40Otherwise, why come on TV?
03:41If you don't want fame, sit at home.
03:43Okay?
03:44The second thing is that
03:46we felt that if those 30 days,
03:49those weekends,
03:51we are doing this,
03:52it is going to be more fun than anything else we do.