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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), Link... Read more

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021: Ben and Jerry ice Cream: The wonderful story of two Guys, their love of ice cream, a $5 investment to a multi-million dollar business

021: Ben and Jerry ice Cream: The wonderful story of two Guys, their love of ice cream, a $5 investment to a multi-million dollar business

Two friends turned their passion of ice creams into a multi-million dollar empire. They just started with $5 investment ... Read more

5 Jan 2017

18mins

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010: Chobani: How an immigrant with simple yogurt business beat the giant companies and became a billionaire.

010: Chobani: How an immigrant with simple yogurt business beat the giant companies and became a billionaire.

We all heard about internet unicorns --the billion dollar-- valuation companies. but can that be done with a non-intern... Read more

27 Oct 2016

13mins

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029: Instagram: A side hustle to selling it for $1 billion in 2 years

029: Instagram: A side hustle to selling it for $1 billion in 2 years

Kevin worked on his startup idea close to 2 years but it didn't take off.  He took a risk, scraped his old idea and went... Read more

2 Mar 2017

40mins

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060: Patagonia - A poor boy living on 50 cents a day to a Billionaire

060: Patagonia - A poor boy living on 50 cents a day to a Billionaire

Yvon Chouinard  grew up poor, dropped out of high school and was a failure in life.  Accidentally,he started a business ... Read more

26 Apr 2018

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053: Zumba - An immigrant who didn't know English to a multi-million dollar eclectic fitness empire

053: Zumba - An immigrant who didn't know English to a multi-million dollar eclectic fitness empire

Beto had a passion for dance and later immigrated to America to bring Zumba, his dance fitness to America . He did not h... Read more

17 Aug 2017

40mins

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062: Kate Spade Fashions - From a scared salesgirl to a multi-million dollar Fashion empire

062: Kate Spade Fashions - From a scared salesgirl to a multi-million dollar Fashion empire

Kate and Andy Spade put in all their savings and borrowed from credit cards to create a different kind of handbags. They... Read more

24 May 2018

33mins

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086: Costco - From a grocery store bagger to a Billionaire

086: Costco - From a grocery store bagger to a Billionaire

Jim Sinegal started as a grocery bagger in a grocery store. How did he start Costco and became a billionaire. Holy cocon... Read more

3 Dec 2019

23mins

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022: Pandora Music: The extra-ordinary story of how Tim went from a Penniless Nanny to a billionaire

022: Pandora Music: The extra-ordinary story of how Tim went from a Penniless Nanny to a billionaire

Tim started his career as a Nanny and was playing  in bands as a side hustle. He saw the agonizing problems his fellow m... Read more

12 Jan 2017

24mins

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038: LinkedIn: A bad student always playing video games to starting LinkedIn and selling it for $20+ billion

038: LinkedIn: A bad student always playing video games to starting LinkedIn and selling it for $20+ billion

Reid Hoffman was bad at academics , then he started and failed at his first startup. Yet he persevered and later started... Read more

4 May 2017

45mins

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070: In-N-Out Burger -From a poor food delivery boy to a multi-billion-dollar restaurant icon

070: In-N-Out Burger -From a poor food delivery boy to a multi-billion-dollar restaurant icon

Harry and Esther, who grew up poor started a small burger stand. It grew to 300 stores and developed a cult following. N... Read more

7 Mar 2019

28mins

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056: Chick-fil-a Restaurants - A poor boy with just a high school education to a billionaire

056: Chick-fil-a Restaurants - A poor boy with just a high school education to a billionaire

Truett Cathy , the founder of Chick-fill-a grew up dirt-poor and in utter poverty. He focused his life on truly serving ... Read more

9 Nov 2017

52mins

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085:Netflix - From a door-to-door-salesman to a billionaire

085:Netflix - From a door-to-door-salesman to a billionaire

Reed never knew anything about running a business. He later started Netflix and faced several problems. But he overcame ... Read more

19 Nov 2019

25mins

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043: IKEA - How a poor farm-boy rose to become a world-famous billionaire

043: IKEA - How a poor farm-boy rose to become a world-famous billionaire

Ingvar was a poor boy and his poverty propelled him to work hard and become entrepreneurial from a very young age. He la... Read more

8 Jun 2017

27mins

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020: FUBU: How Shark Tank's Daymond John went from a Restaurant waiter to multi-millionaire founder

020: FUBU: How Shark Tank's Daymond John went from a Restaurant waiter to multi-millionaire founder

Daymond John was an ordinary guy working as a waiter in a restaurant and in his spare time started FUBU(For us by Us) a ... Read more

2 Jan 2017

12mins

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068: Gordon Ramsay - A poor boy with abusive childhood to a world-famous multi-million dollar restaurant icon

068: Gordon Ramsay - A poor boy with abusive childhood to a world-famous multi-million dollar restaurant icon

Gordon Ramsay was born poor and grew up in abusive situations. But this didn't deter him. He rose to become a world-famo... Read more

25 Oct 2018

30mins

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084: UnderArmour - From grandma's basement to a billion dollar company

084: UnderArmour - From grandma's basement to a billion dollar company

As a student and a football player in college, Kevin saw a problem with his sports inner wear. He did not know anything ... Read more

5 Nov 2019

25mins

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072: Forever21- A gas station attendant to a Billionaire.

072: Forever21- A gas station attendant to a Billionaire.

Do Won Chang started as a gas station attendant. He then started a small shop and grew it to a multi-billion dollar fash... Read more

16 May 2019

23mins

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041: Mary Kay Ash Cosmetics - A poor girl with tough childhood to a billionaire

041: Mary Kay Ash Cosmetics - A poor girl with tough childhood to a billionaire

Mary kay Ash had a very tough childhood growing up as a poor girl. She faced many personal and professional setbacks and... Read more

25 May 2017

27mins

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036: GrubHub - How two programmers bootstrapped a side hustle and made billions

036: GrubHub - How two programmers bootstrapped a side hustle and made billions

Mike and Matt started GrubHub as a side project while working on their day jobs as computer programmers. They bootstrap... Read more

20 Apr 2017

26mins

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050: WhatsApp: How a poor kid and later an orphan who lived on food stamps built WhatsApp and sold for $15+ billion

050: WhatsApp: How a poor kid and later an orphan who lived on food stamps built WhatsApp and sold for $15+ billion

Jan Koum migrated to America in his teens. His family was poor,Yet this kid rose to build an app called Whatsapp. It gre... Read more

27 Jul 2017

37mins

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