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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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Mar 30, 2017

If you look at it , Fitbit for dogs seems like a gimmick business. Who would think that this will become successful. Yet Ben Jacobs proved that this is a worthwhile business and started it and finally sold it for $100+ million.

Let us see how he did it.

Mar 23, 2017

Jeff ran out of money and was not able to pay his employees. On top of this, his company got sued, yet he kept pushing forward and succeed and sold StubHub to ebay for $300+ million.
Let us check out how he did it.

Mar 16, 2017

Francesco Clark was living a happy life  but suddenly his life was hurled and turned upside down by an accident leaving him paralyzed and not able to move 95% of his body, Yet he built a multi-million dollar business.

Let us check out how he did it.

Mar 9, 2017

Microsoft and Quicken were leaders and giants with lots of cash and marketing power in the personal finance software business. Yet, Aaron took on the giants and built a "sure-to-fail" business and sold to Intuit for $160+ million.Let us see how he did it.

Mar 2, 2017

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 with a new idea, which he found almost by accident.
It was a hit and Facebook bought it for $1 billion. Let us check out how he did it

Feb 23, 2017

Milton Hershey started many business and failed in all of them. Any one else would have been crushed by these failures but not Milton. His passion  kept him going and he became one of the richest person in America.

Let us find out how he did it.

Feb 16, 2017

Pretty inspiring story. Anne Beiler had to face an agonizing, intolerable personal loss. Yet this 8th grade dropout,courageously came out and built one of the most enduring Pretzel stores dotting across the world.Let us find out how she did it.

Feb 9, 2017

Three friends started Wufoo with less than 20k, while  still working on their day jobs.
They faced lot of hurdles with lots of uncertainties. Finally they sold the company for $30+ million. Let us find out how they did it.

Feb 2, 2017

Jon needed  photographs for his websites and when he couldn't find cheaper photographs, he sensed that others will have the same problem and started ShutterStock.

He started with less than $1000 and  took it to  $2+ billion IPO.Let's see how he did it.

Jan 26, 2017

Markus started the game Minecraft as a side project, while working on his day  job.  
He had personal tragedies during this time.Yet he kept pushing.

Later he sold for 2+ billion. Let us see how he did it.

Jan 19, 2017

Can you be cheap and scrappy and yet build a business that is both fun and makes millions. James and Jim built HotorNot by bootstrapping all the way and came out with creative ideas to save themselves from shutting down.

Let us check out how they did it.

Jan 12, 2017

Tim started his career as a Nanny and was playing  in bands as a side hustle. He saw the agonizing problems his fellow musicians were facing and he started Pandora.
He faced several problems and he  came very close to shutting it down, but didn't.

Let us see how he did it.

Jan 5, 2017

Two friends turned their passion of ice creams into a multi-million dollar empire. They just started with $5 investment and did not know anything about how to start a business.

Yet they became wildly successful. Let us see how they did it.

Jan 2, 2017

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 sports apparel company with just $40 and turned it into $350+ million in revenue.

Let us check out how he did it.

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