[1] Following education at the grammar school in Bratislava, Kollár supported his family with a variety of odd jobs - working as a cashier at a theatre, ice-cream seller and operating a fastfood truck.
After the Velvet Revolution, he earned a small fortune by importing computers from abroad and selling them to local companies and public institutions.
[3] In spite of being a member of the supervisory board of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design from 2010 to 2014,[4] Boris Kollár had no collage degree until 2015, when he graduated from the University of Central Europe at the age of 49.
[5] In 1990, Boris Kollár used the money earned through computer import to start a business in operating the skiing resort at Donovaly.
[6] In addition, he has been the owner of the radio station Fun Rádio since 1999, where he co-hosted the erotic talk show K-fun from 2004 to 2005.
[10] According to the New York Times, Kollár is a representative of generation of Central and Eastern European businessmen turning populist politicians in similar fashion to the US president Donald Trump.
[13] In 2023 Slovak parliamentary election, We Are Family failed to reach the representation threshold in the midst of a domestic violence scandal Boris Kollár and one of his former romantic partners were involved.
[17] In response to Kollár's admission a group of MPs unsuccessfully attempted to remove him from the position of the speaker.
[25] University rectors as well as politicians, including Kollár's coalition partners Ján Mičovský and Ondrej Dostál, called for his resignation in connection to the plagiarism scandal.
[27] Boris Kollár used his social media channels to spread Fake News related to 2015 European migrant crisis and particularly the actions of Angela Merkel.
[31] The We Are Family party advertised on the internet website Hlavné Správy, which is, according to the political scientist Tomáš Kriššák, associated with spreading hoaxes and fake news.