50 Cent's Business Empire | The Young Mogul Society

TweetSharebar TweetCurtis Jackson aka 50 Cent is one businessman that I admire. Having seen the opportunity that he had when he signed with Shady Records, he knew how to plan his next moves in advance like a game of chess. Knowing that the life span of an artist isn't a long one he planned out his celebrity very shrewdly. Venturing into other businesses while using his brand to sell the products. The reason to his longevity of wealth is because of his diversification into other businesses. Below I have listed 10 of the ventures he is currently active in. There are more ventures planned from this mogul and I will keep you updated as to what he delves into next. Enjoy!   Â*       Â* Vitamin Water 50's best known and most lucrative recent revenue stream is his endorsement deal with Vitamin Water. After signing on to shill for the brand's Formula 50 beverage, 50 got a stake in parent company, Energy Brands. When Coca-Cola bought Energy in May 2007, 50's stake netted him 100 million Â*   Â* Â* Â* Clothing Line 50 partnered with Mark Ecko Enterprises in the spring of 2003 to create a clothing line that was sold through Air Force One High Ecko Unlimited. Ecko and 50 severed their ties last year, but prior to the split, G-Unit Clothing was accounting for 15 percent of Ecko's revenues. The line pulled in 75 million in 2006. With 50's 8% royalty cut, that means that Mr. Jackson made 6 million from selling hats, t-shirts and outerwear emblazoned with the "G-Unit" logo. Â*   Â*   Â* Â* Books 50 also released a ghostwritten memoir called From Pieces to Weight in 2005. According to Nielsen BookScan, it’s sold 73,000 copies in hardcover and 14,000 copies in paperback. At 23 for the hardcover edition and 13 for the paperback, that’s 1.7 million in hardcover sales and 182,000 in paperback sales or 1.9 million total. His new book, The 50th Law, lays out the personal philosophy and self-confidence that reversed the fortune of his humble beginnings.     Â* Â* Â*   Movies 50 nike air force 1 shoes sale Cent launched his acting career with his 2005 biopic Get Rich or Die Tryin,’ but he’s yet to achieve the former on the big screen. Get Rich only grossed 46 million, failing to recoup its 40 million budget. 50 followed that up with the Samuel L. Jackson flick Home of the Brave, which made a whopping 499,620. His most recent outing last year in the 60 million Righteous Kill, with Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro, only banked 77 million. Â*   Â* Â* Â* Video Games 50, if you haven't heard, was shot nine times: perfect fodder for a video game in which 50 hunts down the guys who tried to murder him. Despite awful reviews, 2005's Bulletproof sold more than 2.5 million copies. At roughly 50 a pop (the game’s original MSRP), that's 125 million in total sales. A follow-up, Blood on the Sand, was released this February     Â* Â* Â* Â* Endorsements 50 Air Force 1 isn’t just hawking Vitamin Water, clothes and CDs. Since 2003, he’s inked endorsement deals with Reebok and Pontiac. Reebok paid him 20 million in 2003 to license a G-Unit sneaker line. Reebok’s reportedly sold more than 4 million pairs at 80 a pop, which means Fiddy’s shoes have made more than 320 million in revenue. He also had an endorsement deal with Pontiac, which sponsored his 2007 tour of New York City’s five boroughs to promote his album, Curtis. 50 helped design a bright red G8 sedan and was also sponsoring an El Camino-like G8 pickup, which he unveiled at last year’s New York City auto show, but sadly the recession forced GM to cancel plans to build the truck, slated to go on sale this year.       Â* Â* Â* Film Production The bullet-scarred mogul recently launched film-production company Cheetah Vision with producer Randall Emmett. The pair is set to develop eight movies, including The Dance with Nicholas Cage and 13 with Mickey Rourke. 50 isn’t worried about the recession derailing his movie plans. He told News in Film that he was happy to pay for his own flicks, which would be reassuring if his financial portfolio wasn’t being battered by the economic meltdown     Â* Â* Â* Â* Real Estate Portfolio Curtis Jackson often talked about his plans to crack the Forbes 400. So like any wannabe billionaire, he has a financial portfolio comprising stocks, bonds, Reebok x Kool-Aid Collaboration « home investment pools, and real estate. Sadly, like the world’s actual billionaires, 50 lost millions in the stock market this fall. Meanwhile, he’s struggled to sell the mansion he purchased from bankrupt boxer Mike Tyson, currently priced at 18.5 million, and the rapper’s wondering if Tyson’s karma has had anything to do with that Â*       Â*   Platinum 50 is reportedly working on investing in heavy metal, literally. He recently visited a platinum, palladium, and iridium mine shaft in South Africa and hung out with local billionaire Patrice Motsepe. The platinum-selling rapper is apparently considering taking an equity stake in the mine and launching 50 Cent-branded platinum Â* Â* Â* Â* Â* Dietary Supplements and Moisturizers Now that 50′s music career has stalled, he admits he’s developed “the Diddy syndrome.” But instead of selling cologne to make money, the health-and-fitness-minded rapper is exploring launching a new line of dietary supplements and moisturizers No related posts.