Short YouTube excerpt featuring Tarek El Moussa describing his rise from delivering pizzas and selling Cutco knives to becoming a real estate investor and TV personality. He recounts starting in real estate with little knowledge or capital, pitching a flipping show ('Flip or Flop'), facing early setbacks with network pushback, and committing fully to pursue a pilot with HGTV.
Today, Tarek El Moussa. Tarek El Moussa. Tarek El Moussa. Tarek El Moussa shows us how literally anything is possible. I went from delivering pizzas to selling Cutco knives, to selling houses, to flipping houses to doing six hit TV shows to marrying two of the most beautiful blondes. Way out of my league. You see what I'm saying? Never thought about TV in my life. Next day, I said, I'm going to get us a TV show. Why don't we flip houses on tv? We call it Flip or Flop. Flip if we make it, flop if we don't. What did I do? When I first started selling real estate, I didn't even know how to do a listing contract. Three quarters of the way through season one, we stopped filming. Someone at the network was trying to cancel my show. So they're yelling at me. I'm like, oh, my God, please yell at me three more times. I call, hi, this is Tarik with ReMax. Blah, blah, blah, blah. Targ, go F yourself. Instead of crying, I'm like, guess what? I get to go home now. Click. Was I crazy, everyone? Hey, yeah, I was. HGTV reached out. They want to do a pilot of the flipping show. I said, holy, I don't know how to flip houses, and I don't have any money. And it's like, you know, I just. I burned the boats and I went for broke. And here's how I did it.
