Tag: Shark
sunday july 20th 2008
Shark Has Teeth in Buffalo
Moe Boukadida grew up in Tunisia, North Africa, attended college in Russia, is fluent in four languages, and calls Buffalo "home".
The owner of the American rights to Shark Energy Drink started his first entrepreneurial venture long ago, at the age of 13, and with the exception of a few glitches that furthered his business sense, he has soared upward ever since.
"I started my first venture when I was 13. My friend's father sold computers, and I would buy parts from him and sell them to my friends for a little profit. When I was 14 or 15, I started selling whole computers," Boukadida said. "At 16, I started a DJ business, doing clubs, parties, weddings. At 17, I opened a clothing store."
Boukadida's father was a professor, who didn't necessarily see his son's growing business acumen to be the life he wished for him. After all, the elder Boukadida reasoned, many a businessman can go belly-up, but a scholar is educated forever. Though the t…
