How They Made Their Millions
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How They Made Their Millions
This show is about the amazing stories of world-class multi-millionaire and billionaire founders , how they started and how they succeeded. Founder Stories include the founders of Facebook(Mark), Linked-in(Reid), WhatsApp(Jan), Ben and Jerry Ice creams(the name says it), Instagram(Kevin), Amazon(Je...
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151: GoPro: Nick Woodman - From selling bead belts in a VW van to creating a billion-dollar empire
How did Nick Woodman , the founder of GoPro grow from selling bead belts in a VW van to creating a billion-dollar empire. Let us check it out.
150: J.P. Morgan - Turning chaos into billion dollar opportunities
Here is the riveting journey of J.P. Morgan, the titan who transformed American finance.Let us discover how this financial maestro navigated uncertain...
149: SweetGreen: From a tiny dorm-room business to a multi-millionaire dollar food empire
Nicolas Jammet, Jonathan Neman, and Nathaniel Ru were three friends who shared a passion for healthy food. Since they couldn't find good places to eat...
148: IT cosmetics: Jamie Kern Lima - From a struggling waitress to building a cosmetics empire
Jamie Kern Lima had a dream to become a TV show host, but her dreams were shattered because of a problem she had. She later started IT cosmetics to so...
147: Care.com: Sheila Marcelo - Turning her bad life situation into a business and becoming a Multi-millionaire
Sheila Marcelo aspired to have a fulfilling life with a well-planned career. However, life took an unexpected turn, and she faced many challenging sit...
146: Hint Water: Kara Goldin - Starting a business by accident to becoming a multi-millionaire
Kara Godin never intended to start a business. But she had a personal problem of losing weight. She started to share her unsweetened, fruit infused wa...
145: Beats Electronics: Jimmy Lovine - From a Janitor to a music billionaire
Dr. Dre and Jimmy Lovine, both music producers, recognized the need for high-quality headphones that could accurately reproduce the sound of music as...
144: General Motors - Alfred Sloan - From a simple draftsman to a multi-millionaire Automobile icon
William Durant started General motors, but it almost came close to shutting down. Then Alfred Sloan stepped in. He adopted a different approach than h...
143: Tim Ferriss - From hopeless and depressed to becoming an Inspirational Icon and a multi-millionaire
Tim Ferriss was depressed most of the time and one time thought of ending his life. But he escaped that by fate of luck. Later he started a business a...
142: Sargento - Leonard Gentine - From a tiny mom-and-pop shop to a billion dollar cheese empire
Leonard Gentine never had any plans for starting a business. But by sheer accident, he got to know about a new profession and started a business which...
141: Mark Cuban - The son of a automobile upholstery installer to a Billionaire
Mark Cuban’s father was an automobile upholstery installer and life was not the best. He figured out ways to make money and finished his education. He...
140: CableVision - Charles Dolan - A college dropout to a Maverick Billionaire
Charles Dolan, failed at two businesses. He faced many setbacks. Yet in 1973, this Maverick entrepreneur started Cablevision and built it into a multi...
139: Zipcar - Robin Chase & Antje Danielson - Two Moms with no business experience to starting a multi-million dollar car-sharing empire.
Robin Chase was a stay at him mom & Antje Danielson was a mom and academic researcher. They never had any prior experience starting a business but the...
138 : Duty Free Shops - Chuck Feeney - From a poor kid to a billionaire, who gave it all away.
Chuck Feeney was born poor. He made a fortune selling duty-free goods, building an enterprise out of nothing. Then, he gave all his money away. Let us...
137: Maker Studios - Ordinary YouTubers to Millionaires
Danny Zappin, Shay Carl and a few other YouTubers, started their own YouTube Channels and amassed millions of subscribers. They decided to pool togeth...
136: Dorothy Herman - Rising from life-crushing Trauma to becoming a multi-millionaire Real-Estate icon
How did Dorothy Herman rose from life-crushing Trauma to become a multi-millionaire Real-Estate icon. Let us check out her awe-inspiring story.
135: LegalZoom - From a one-bedroom apartment eating ramen noodles to becoming multi-millionaires
How did Brian lee and Brian Lui start LegalZoom, a company that provides legal documentation in a one-bedroom apartment eating ramen noodles and beca...
134: Kathy Ireland - From a high-school dropout model to a Business Mogul
How did a model who was a high-school dropout become a Business Mogul building a multi-billion dollar company.
Let us check out her inspiring st...
133: Audible - From a small-time Journalist to a Multi-millionaire
How did Don Katz who started working as a journalist and never had any exposure to tech started Audible and then sold to Amazon and became a multi-mil...
132: ABC Supply - From a high school dropout Teen single Mom To a Billionaire Entrepreneur
How did Diane Hendricks, a high school dropout and a Teen single mom built ABC Supply, the largest wholesale roofing distributor in America, and rose...
131: SlideShare - How they turned a personal problem into a Multi-million dollar business
Rashmi Sinha & Jonathan Boutelle wanted to embed PowerPoint presentations into other websites, but they could not find a solution. So how did they tur...
130: Public storage - The son of a poor farmer to a billionaire
How did Wayne Hughes who was born to a poor farmer started Public Storage to store people's excess belongings and became a billionaire. Let us check...
129: SmugMug - From a homeless kid to a multi-millionaire
Chris MacAskill was homeless and had to deal with a sick mother. Yet he rose through his challenges and started SmugMug and lived a fulfilling life an...
128: NYX Cosmetics - An immigrant not able to speak English to a multi-millionaire fashion icon
Toni Ko’s parents immigrated to America, and she did not understand English. Yet she struggled and at a young age started NYX cosmetics and sold it fo...
127: BaseCamp - From being Contrarian and going against the status quo to building a multi-million dollar business
Jason Fried and David Hanson, went against the status quo and built basecamp by doing the opposite of what we think successful companies are supposed...
126: Bloomingdale’s - From a single tiny store to a billion-dollar high-end luxury store chain
Bloomingdale is a high-end luxury department chain started in New York. It started as a tiny shop selling only one item. Yet it grew into a billion-do...
125: MyFitnessPal - From side-hustler to multi-millionaire
Mike Lee wanted to lose some weight before his wedding, but there was no good digital solution. So he decided to start his own app as a side hustle an...
124: GitHub: Tom Preston-Werner - From dead-broke to a multi-millionaire.
GitHub is a well-known website that brings together developers from all over the globe to work together on code. But how did Tom Preston-Werner and Ch...
123: Eddie Bauer: From a high-school dropout to a multi-millionaire outdoor goods icon.
Eddie Bauer grew up loving the outdoors. To support his family, he dropped out of school and working odd jobs, he later opened his own tiny outdoor sh...
122: King.com(Candy Crush game): Riccardo Zacconi - Almost Bankrupt to a multi-million dollar gaming icon.
Riccardo Zacconi started king. com to build games . His business nearly went bankrupt. The Dot-com bubble had burst and Zacconi had put all of his mon...
121: Nathan’s Famous Restaurants: Nathan Handwerker - From a restaurant dish-washer to a Multi-millionaire.
Nathan Handwerker, whose first job at age 6 was peddling knishes in what is now Poland, immigrated to New York when he was barely 20. He had no formal...
120: Kayak: Steve Hafner & Paul English - Two men who changed the way people travel forever and became multi-millionaires.
Paul English wrestled with bipolar disorder, having bouts of depression frequently, yet he teamed up with Steve Hafner and started Kayak. They faced c...
119: Holiday Inn: Kemmons Wilson - From Dirt-poor to a Multi-Millionaire Hospitality icon.
Many have heard about the man who revolutionized the lodging industry in the 20th century: Kemmons Wilson — the founder of everyone’s favorite hotel c...
118: StitchFix - Katrina Lake - From starting in an apartment to becoming a multi-millionaire
Katrina Lake never had any dreams of starting a business. She thought she was never capable, but due to a discovery she made about other entrepreneurs...
117: Paul Mitchell Haircare Systems: John Paul DeJoria - Twice Homeless to a Multi-Millionaire
John Paul DeJoria grew up poor with his single mother. He faced many problems in life and was homeless twice and lived in his car. Yet he had the driv...
116: NerdWallet - Tim Chen: Starting with $800 and turning it into multiple millions.
Tim Chen had a nice job in the financial services industry. But something bad happened, and he accidentally started NerdWallet. Money was not coming i...
115: Lucas Oil - Forrest Lucas: A triumphant journey from childhood poverty to a multimillionaire
Lucas oils is a manufacturer and distributor of automotive oil, additives, and lubricants.
Its founder is Forrest Lucas and his is a proverbial...
114: Adobe - John Warnock and Charles Geschke: Simple Xerox employees to multi-millionaires
Now we take for granted that we can print anything from our computer.
But long back, this was very difficult and many companies, including Apple...
113: Crate & Barrel: Gordon Segal - From not knowing anything about retail business to becoming multi-millionaires
Gordon and his wife wanted designer European cookware and glassware, but they were very expensive in America. To solve this problem for them and for o...
112: Electronic Arts: Trip Hawkins - From a failure in first business to a multi-millionaire
Trip Hawkins grew up at a time when there were no computers. He loved complex sports simulation board games, but others found it complex. He dreamt of...