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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(Jeff), Pandora(Tim), Hershey Chocolates(Milton) and more. You will hear their struggles and seemingly insurmountable problems and how they emerged victoriously, so you too can succeed as a founder.
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Dec 29, 2016

Household cleaning products were dominated by giant companies with their toxic and harmful products. Two friends created "non-toxic" and "cool-looking" cleaning products and they beat the giants and are making $100+ million.

Let us check out how...

Dec 26, 2016

Is it possible to invest $200 and make millions from a simple message of “Do what you like, like what you do” and also bring happiness to millions of people.

Let us check out how two brothers Bert and John Jacobs did it.

Dec 22, 2016

Derek did not know anything about programming, he did not know how to start and run a business.

He did not have enough money. He just started with $500 and eventually sold his business CDBaby for $19+ millions.

Let us check out, how he did it.

Dec 19, 2016

How did a bartender became a millionaire, Jim McCann transformed 1-800-FLOWERS from a small struggling floral shop into a multi-million dollar flower and gift business. Did he plan it and did he have the desire to become a millionaire?. Let us check out.

Dec 15, 2016

Nobu a poor boy , dreamt of opening his own sushi restaurant. He started a few restaurants, but all of them failed  He  attempted suicide but it was averted . He pulled himself up and opened  a fourth one and it became wildly successful and generated millions. Let us see how he did it.

Dec 8, 2016

Can a simple kid's game with penguins become a blockbuster hit , and then attract Disney to buy them for $325+ million.

Here is how three guys, Lane Merrifield , Dave Krysko and Lance Priebe did it with Club Penguin.

Dec 5, 2016

Is it possible to do what we love..have fun and.. also make money.
Leo Laporte of the famous “TWIT TV” podcast  did it by bootstrapping his podcast empire almost by accident. Let us check out how he is doing it.

Nov 3, 2016

When Rachel, a healthy vegetarian food lover, injured herself during pregnancy, her husband got her a frozen vegetarian dinner, which tasted Yucky.

They started their own vegetarian frozen dishes business and grew big into a 200+ million business. How?

Oct 29, 2016

Betsy Saul did not set out to make money. She couldn't see bad things happen to Pets.

She started as a service to help pets and it grew into a business and produced millions as a side benefit.

Here is who she did it.

Oct 27, 2016

We all heard about internet unicorns --the billion dollar-- valuation companies.

but can that be done with a non-internet business that too with a simple Yogurt business. Hamdi Ulukaya an immigrant proved it can be done and became a billionaire.

Here is how he did it...

Oct 23, 2016

Can you start a business without knowing anything about the business and still make millions.

Most people will say No, but Bob MacLeod  and Steve Byckiewicz  proved that it can be done.  They just started and learnt along the way.

Let us find out who they did it.. Pretty interesting

Sep 15, 2016

Can a movie watching hobby be turned into a serious business that too a multimillion dollar business.

Col Needham did this with one of the world’s top entertainment website IMDB.com and sold to Amazon.

Let us check out how he did it.

Sep 9, 2016

Can an insane idea of selling mismatched socks succeed?. Who would want to wear them.. right?

Wrong..,Jonah Staw proved it will succeed by building LittleMissMatched and generating multiple millions.

Let us see how he did it.

Sep 7, 2016

While there are already big players in the shoe business, Can someone come with a new idea for shoes and succeed and also  make tons of money. Mario Polegato did it with Geox and made it a billion dollar company. with a  weird idea —having holes in shoes—

Let us check out how he did it..

Sep 5, 2016

Can you build a high trafficked blog with your passion and also make money.

Graham Hill did it with TreeHugger.com and sold for $10 million. Here is how he did it.

Sep 3, 2016

Can a person born to Chinese immigrants who was broke and no job, build a 100million-plus business with his passion for music. Check out how Monster Audio's Noel Lee did it.

Sep 1, 2016

Robert Stephens started Geek Squad with just himself and $200 investment.
He did some fascinating marketing without any money.
and he grew  to thousands of employees and sold Geek Squad to Best buy for Millions.
How did he do it. Let us check out.

Aug 26, 2016

Maxine had a good job with pretty good money. Years passed by  and she felt a void in her heart. She wanted to do something which she loved and leave her mark in this world.

Find out how she quit her job, started her passion business called build-a-bear and became Rich(multi-millionaire) and happy in the process.

Aug 20, 2016

Two Friends were stressed out by their Lawyer Jobs and wanted to do something which they loved and they loved Restaurants.  They did not know anything about restaurants. but how did they succeed?  Check out the founders story of California Pizza Kitchen(CPK)

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