▷ Marcus Dantus Biography ◁ Age, Height, Family, Fortune, Shark Tank

Who is Marcus Dantus?

Marcus Dantus is a famous Mexican entrepreneur and investor who became famous in 2018 after appearing on the Shark Tank Mexico program, Negociando con tiburones. Marcus Dantus was born on November 7, 1966 in Mexico City and is currently the owner and director of Startup Mexico.

Biography of Marcus Dantus

Beginnings in the life of Marcus Dantus

The now famous Marcus Dantus has always had the conviction of being in business but when it came time to decide what he was going to do, he opted to pursue a degree in Administrative Computer Systems at the Tecnológico de Monterrey campus in the State of Mexico, but later Having a great interest in communications, he traveled to the United States where he finished a degree in Communications with a specialization in Film at the University of Pennsylvania.

After finishing his studies, Marcus Dantus returned to Mexico City where he would dedicate himself to creating television commercials as well as documentaries and also worked in various companies in the area of ​​marketing and advertising; but his life would take an unexpected turn when in 1993 a friend taught him what the internet was and he became very interested in everything related to that world by making internet pages.

Currently, in addition to being a successful businessman and businessman, Marcus Dantus became a star of Mexican television and entertainment without having thought or imagined it after having participated in the successful series Shark Tank Mexico , but although many people only You know from that show, Marcus Dantus has really stood out in the business world.

Trajectory and history of Marcus Dantus

Marcus Dantus dedicated himself to making internet pages that he later made successful and later sold them. The first one he put up for sale managed to obtain more than 20 thousand dollars; And so he was for several years until in 2000 he created a portal that managed to be resold for almost 8 million dollars, which made him a real tycoon and businessman. Marcus Dantus launched his first tech startup in 1993, dedicated to selling email addresses and registering digital domains. But the dot-com bubble finally burst, and his first failure came when lawyers contacted him to stop and desist from buying Internet domain names for brands he didn’t own.

A year later he would begin his career as CEO of Simitel, where he served as CEO for almost six years; in 2011 he was director of Wayra.

In 2013 Marcus Dantus founded the company Startup México , a program for the promotion of entrepreneurship and innovation in the Aztec country, with investment, advice from professionals such as lawyers, developers, designers among many other professionals in the areas to bring success to any company that wants to excel in the market. “ We have everything a company needs, very cheap and without having to leave the place, the idea was to start doing various academic, entrepreneurial programs such as incubation and acceleration, where anyone could enjoy the environment” , commented Marcus Dantus about his business.

Only three years after its creation , Marcus Dantus had already managed to consolidate the creation of more than 200 new companies which were already managed in the Mexican market as quite sustainable companies. By this time , Marcus Dantus was already considered a pioneer in electronic commerce in Latin America, an expert in identifying and solving operational problems. Then he was fortunate to become a professor of entrepreneurship and innovation at the IPADE business school and later he was a key player in the Master’s Degree in Internet Business taught at the ISDI university, finally he was also a professor of Innovation at the Disruptive Business Academy ( DBA).

In a recent interview , Marcus Dantus has commented that in his life he has had many business successes, however, he also had one that was a resounding failure and that was Mexico(.com) which, due to personal conflicts, he was never able to bring to life; “It was a company in which we had all the opportunities in the universe, and due to a lawsuit between the partners for not aligning expectations, we wasted a great opportunity after being funded.”

Marcus Dantus in his early days bought more than a thousand domains, including mexico.com, which he sold for a million-dollar figure. “I started to think about what domain could really represent me. I knew “Mexico” had to be a part of it, but also the internet was very slow in those days. Do you remember how we used to connect with modems? So I thought that speed was very important. What does Mexico and speed really represent? I checked speedygonzalez.com.

By some miracle it was not registered, but when I was about to put my website on speedygonzalez.com I received a cease and desist letter from Warner Brothers lawyers asking me to return the domain. I was in my late twenties and didn’t want to fight big corporations, so I gave them back the domain. All my friends said “You are an idiot Marcus Dantus . You could earn money. It would cost them to sue you.

Out of spite, I registered andale.com. Which I thought was generic and also represents Speedy González, Mexico and speed. Before uploading my website to andale.com, I got an email from a couple of guys in Silicon Valley asking me to sell them my domain, I didn’t even know it was possible. They were offering me 10 thousand and I thought it was a joke, I thought they were joking, so I said “Ok. Give me 20 thousand dollars I’ll give it to you ”20 thousand dollars was deposited in my account !!. I thought this is amazing, this is the best deal ever. Over the next few months I registered a couple thousand domains. Everything was generic, I recorded nations and states and cities and sports, and everything you could think of in Spanish. No one registered domains in Spanish. Finally, I registered Mexico. com”.

In June 2016, one of the most successful programs on pay television began and despite the arrival of new technologies, it managed to establish itself as a show with very good audience levels, Shark Tank: Negociando con tiburones , which had its first season completely recorded in Mexico.

In the Shark Tank program , different entrepreneurs appear before a panel of investors or sharks (as they are called) with the intention of selling them their idea for which they need a little economic investment to make their projects gain strength and succeed in their business but first they have to negotiate with the sharks because sometimes they ask for something in exchange for investing their capital. Although initially Shark Tank Mexico was only broadcast on the Sony channel, in 2019 it began to be broadcast on open television thanks to the Image channel.

Throughout the different seasons of Shark Tank Mexico , the panel has been made up of different ” sharks ” such as Rodrigo Herrera Aspra , Carlos Bremer , Arturo Elías Ayub who have been part of the project since the first season, but some others such as Patricia Armendáriz , Marcus Dantus and Luis Harvey have been on different seasons and not always coming back for another one.

Every success brings great detractors and recently the acclaimed magazine Proceso made a report in which it exposed a possible fraud on Shark Tank Mexico , considering it a program full of lies, since they assured that several of the “winners” after finishing the recording of his chapter were waiting for the economic resources and the promised contacts; while defaulting tycoons enhanced their image to make themselves known as true philanthropists.

In addition, the same magazine managed to contact many of the participants who in the program had managed to gain the acceptance of the famous “sharks” and get their supposed financial support, but after the program they did not hear from them again or they were long-suffering and finally the entrepreneurs they got tired of waiting and gave up waiting for the promised support. On the other hand, according to an investigation by the producer of a podcast in the United States, Tj Hale, indicated that up to two-thirds of Shark Tank winners never receive the resources promised to them before the cameras.

Marcus Dantus is a renowned serial entrepreneur and angel investor with two decades of experience creating, managing, financing, and mentoring startups in Mexico and the United States. He currently continues to be the co-founder and CEO of Startup México , the first entrepreneurship supercampus in Mexico.

How much is Marcus Dantus’s fortune?

This is one of the questions that people ask themselves the most about Marcus Dantus and although they always end up answering it on other pages with “I don’t know” or “it depends” if there are some estimates that various web portals mention. However, it is not possible to make an exact calculation about the fortune of this great star that is Marcus Dantus within the middle of the show, even so, more than being interested in the fortune of a person, the important thing is the talent he has and what he has done. that he is among the great figures of the international show business.

Without a doubt, the career of this great star Marcus Dantus will continue to rise and we will be attentive to everything that happens around him, so we invite you to stay on our page for the next updates that we will have on his life, career, history and biography of Marcus Dantus.