Daymond John On Shark Tank Looks To Fry Up Success With $150,000 Investment In Breading Mix Company

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Husband and wife team Joseph “Joe” and Maranda Dowell, founders of Joe's Gourmet Fish Fry based in Atlanta, recently landed a deal with Daymond John for $150,000 in exchange for 25% of their company on ABC’s hit show Shark Tank on Sunday, January 14th. The duo presented their delicious seafood breading product to John, Mark Cuban, Lori Greiner, Robert Herjavec, and Kevin O'Leary.

Joe’s Gourmet Fish Fry manufactures a seafood breading mix that offers a tasty light alternative way to fry seafood, vegetables and poultry. The mix doesn’t absorb as much oil, and brings a light, delicious crunch that brings out the best in food without overpowering with salt.

Daymond John From Selling On The Southeast Queens Streets To Building a 6 Billion Dollar Brand

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Learn How Daymond John Went From Selling On The Southeast Queens Streets To Being A Global Business Icon by Kamau Austin. 

Daymond John was born in Brooklyn and raised in Hollis, Queens.  His mother had some difficulty with making ends meet when she and his father and split up early in his life at about age 10.  Daymond has challenges with dyslexia which perhaps he has been able to use to his advantage by learning to use other forms of media rather than the printed word to promote his business ideas.

John, like a lot of young people in Hollis and Southeast Queens, was lit over the new musical art form exploding in "da Bronx," called rap or hip hop.  Hip hop had an urban realistic storytelling and hard core poetic edge.

He attended Bayside High School.  Later early on in his working career he waited tables at a Red Lobster restaurant while getting involved in clothing production and manufacturing of his clothing brand FUBU.