Michael Michalowicz (/mɪˈkæləwɪts/mick-AL-ə-wits;[1] (born September 19, 1970) is an American non-fiction author, children's author,[2] entrepreneur, and lecturer.[3][4] He is the author of eight business books published by Penguin Random House, including All In (2023), Get Different (2021),[5]Profit First (2017)[6] and Clockwork Revised & Expanded (2022), and is the former host of the "Business Rescue" segment for MSNBC's Your Business. He was previously the small business columnist for The Wall Street Journal and hosted the reality television program called Bailout!.[7][8][9][10]
Michalowicz founded Olmec Systems [14] in 1996 and sold the business in a private equity transaction in 2003. In 2003 he co-founded a computer forensic firm, which was a lead examiner in the
Enron scandal. That company was acquired by
Robert Half International in 2006. Terms were not disclosed.[15] Mike Michalowicz currently owns seven companies, including a small business investment accelerator called Prosper Group. Michalowicz is co-founder of six additional organizations with exclusive licensing rights to his work. [16]
^"Book can help entrepreneurs", Neighbor News, December 3, 2008. Accessed December 26, 2021, via
Newspapers.com. "Michael (Mike) Michalowicz, who started and sold two businesses and now works as a consultant to individuals undertaking new business ventures, recently published The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur.... The author, who lives in Mountain Lakes with his wife and three children, grew up in Boonton Township. He graduated from Boonton High School and the Virginia Institute of Technology."