Lori Greiner is an American inventor, jewelry designer, philanthropist, author, and TV personality. She is known as The Queen of QVC and the Warm Blooded Shark from her time on ABC’s hit show “Shark Tank.” Here, we discuss her net worth.
Lori: HSN Design Career
Lori Greiner made a plastic organiser in the mid-1990s that could hold up to 100 pairs of earrings. Before the holidays, J.C. Penney bought her earring organizer, which was a big hit. In the first six months, she was in business, Greiner made a deal with JC Penney to make items for them. Within a year, she was selling her products on cable TV.
During her first appearance, she sold 2,500 earring organizers in only two minutes. Her earring organizer went on to make more than $1 million in a year. When it first came out on the Home Shopping Network it sold out right away.
She was able to pay back the $300,000 loan she took out to make her earring organizer in 18 months because of the money it made. Greiner’s business made more than $10 million in sales in just three years. Greiner’s brand For Your Ease Only made more than $350 million in sales by 2010.
Most of her products are ways to organize things. A small jewelry box that keeps jewelry from tarnishing costs $16 and a spinning jewelry cabinet with mirrors cost $299. The 24-hour cable channel QVC is where she makes 80% of her sales. Since 2000, she has been hosting “Clever and Unique Creations by Lori Greiner,” a popular monthly show on QVC that is one of the longest-running shows on the network.
She has made more than 700 products for men and women that help people organize their jewelry, makeup, remote controls, sweaters they keep under their beds, and even cooking supplies. She has more than 100 patents in the U.S. and other countries for her products.
She was a speaker at the first Women’s Entrepreneurship Symposium held by the US Patent and Trademark Office in 2011.
Shark Tank
Magazines like O, The Oprah Magazine, InStyle, Woman’s Day, and Family Circle often write about Greiner’s products. She has also been featured in Parade, Financial Times, Forbes, Success, and Entrepreneur, and she has been on The View, Bloomberg, CNN, and many other shows. One of Oprah’s favorite things is her Initial Silver Safekeeper.
In 2012, Lori became one of the judges on the hit reality TV show Shark Tank. In 2014, her investment in Scrub Daddy, a company that makes a household sponges with different textures, was called one of the biggest successes in the history of Shark Tank.
Greiner sold more than 2 million Scrub Daddy sponges on QVC in one day. Greiner’s other early Shark Tank investments were in Bantam Bagels (mini stuffed bagels), Squatty Potty, Readers, Paint Brush Cover, Hold Your Haunches, Drop Stop, FiberFix, Simply Fit Board, Sleep Styler, and Screenmend.
In 2014, she wrote the book Invent It, Sell It, Bank It! : Make Your Million-Dollar Idea a Reality, which reached #3 on the Wall Street Journal’s list of best-sellers.
In 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017, Shark Tank won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Structured Reality Program. Lori is also a paid speaker for well-known companies like Chase, IBM, Adobe, PayPal, Coldwell Banker, and the American Heart Association, to name a few.
Lori: Net Worth 2023
Because of her bold idea, she now has a net worth of $150 million as of 2022. She came up with the idea for an earring organizer in 1996, and it led her to a life of success.
Lori: Salary Highlights
Lori Greiner makes about $5 million a year from her business, For Your Ease Only, and her role on the ABC show Shark Tank. She gets $50,000 for each episode of Shark Tank, or $1.2 million for the whole season.
Lori: Real Estate
Lori and Dan Greiner have two homes. One is in Chicago, and the other is near the QVC headquarters in suburban Philadelphia.
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