Nick Friedman

Nick Friedman is a renowned entrepreneur, movie & TV producer, best-selling author, motivational speaker, actor and TV personality. He is best known as the Co-Founder of the multi-million dollar franchise 'College Hunks Hauling Junk,' which has over 200 franchises worldwide and does over $200M annual sales. Along with his business partner Omar Soliman, Nick published the best-selling book 'Effortless Entrepreneur' (Random House, 2010), and also Co-Produced the award-winning Netflix documentary, 'Beware of Mr. Baker' (2012). More recently Nick executive produced and acted in the biopic movie about Jeff Bezos, which is the first movie ever made about the wealthiest man in the universe and founding of Amazon. Nick has also appeared on numerous unscripted reality television programs, including the very first episode of ABC's Shark Tank, Bravo's Millionaire Matchmaker, AMC's The Pitch, HGTV's House Hunters, CNBC's Bluecollar Millionaires, and his company has made appearances on several other television programs, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, A&E's Hoarders and TLC's Hoarding: Buried Alive. Nick appears as a frequent guest on FOX News, MSNBC, CNN, CNBC, and various other programs, and has been a regular columnist and contributor to Forbes, Fortune, Newsweek, Huffington Post, Inc, Entrepreneur, and Time, among other major publications regarding topics such as business and entrepreneurship. He was named among the Top 30 Entrepreneurs in America Under 30 by INC Magazine and was on the same list as Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Michael Dell in a Newsweek article entitled "College Kid to Millionaire". Nick is a three-time Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award Finalist, and he won the prestigious award in 2018, and he continues to be an active Board Member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO). In terms of charitable involvement, Nick launched an innovative solution that provides free moves for Survivors of Domestic Violence, and has completed over 200 free moves since the program began. His company also donates 2 meals for every completed job to US Hunger, having donated over 2 Million meals since launching the program.