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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, 2020

Charles_Kettering grew up poor and had health problems. Yet, he persevered and invented many things including the self-starter in cars and became a multi-millionaire. Let us see how he did it.

Dec 15, 2020

Neil Blumenthal along with his 3 friends started a business, while he was in college. Everyone he talked to said, they would fail, Yet, they started Warby Parker and turned it into a multi-billion dollar company. Let us see how they did it.

Dec 1, 2020

George Soros escaped death when he was young. He started as a Clerk, but later started a hedge fund and rose up to become a billionaire.Let us check out his story.

Nov 17, 2020

Julia Hartz never had an intention to start a business nor had any knowledge of the tech world. But she was pulled into it by accident, and she and her husband Kevin started EventBrite and took it to a billion-dollar company.

Nov 3, 2020

Cathy grew up poor and when Cathy Hughes was in her teens, she was thrown out of her house. With no resources or connections, she rose to start Urban one, a network of Radio stations and became a multi-millionaire. Let us check out her story.

Sep 22, 2020

Jamie Siminoff tried many ideas and failed. One time by accident, he stumbled on the idea for a WIFI Video doorbell. It was tough to survive, but he doggedly persisted and finally sold his company for a whopping $1.2billion. Let us see how he did it…

Sep 1, 2020

Emanuel Bronner was born in Germany and escaped to America during the Nazi regime.
Stricken with personal loss, he decided to bring peace into the world and started making soap and grew the company to more than $100 million.
Let us see how he did it.

Aug 4, 2020

Andrew Carnegie’s grew up poor. He started with a lowly job. He slowly rose and started a company and finally became the world’s richest man and also one of the world’s greatest philanthropist. Holy Lemon Pie, Let us check it out how he did it.

Jul 14, 2020

Gary VaynerChuk was the son of a immigrant Liquor store worker. So Gary had the fire to get rich. He later started Wine Library TV and other businesses and eventually became a multi- millionaire. Holy Vanilla Ice cream!, Let us see how he did it.

Jun 23, 2020

Bob Parsons grew up poor and since he wanted money he tried several means to earn money. He started GoDaddy and came close to shutting it down. But he persisted and succeeded and ultimately became a billionaire.

Jun 2, 2020

Richard Branson needs no introduction. His reputation precedes him!. Due to a birth defect, he was poor at understanding things and he was a terrible student too. But he overcame all this and became a fun-loving billionaire. Let us see how he did it.

May 5, 2020

Behance is like LinkedIn for Designers. Scott started with a low-level job as a financial trader but later started Behance with less than $20,000 Later, he sold it to Adobe for more than $100 million. Let us see how he did it.

Apr 21, 2020

Suroosh Alvi's parents had high hopes for his future. But during his college, he got addicted to drugs. Yet, he transformed from a worthless drug addict to a multi-millionaire. Let us see how he did it with VICE.

Mar 24, 2020

Jeremy first idea for yelp failed to get traction and almost failed. He accidentally found that users loved writing reviews and he redesigned Yelp and it took off wildly and made Jeremy a multi-millionaire. Let us see how he did it.

Mar 10, 2020

Ehud Shabtai got a GPS and he thought of creating an app. But the maps company blocked him. He came up with a unique solution and Waze became a hit with users and finally they sold it to Google for a billion dollars. Let us see how they did it.

Feb 25, 2020

Michael Dubin founded Dollar Shave Club in 2011 in his apartment with his meager savings. Five years later, in 2016, his company was acquired by Unilever for $1 billion. How the heck did he do it. Let us see how he did it.

Feb 11, 2020

Gary loved bike riding and during one such long ride, he looked at the disgusting energy bar he was carrying and got the idea for Clif bar. He started Clif bar, struggled and finally became a multi-millionaire. Let us see how he did it.

Jan 28, 2020

Black entertainment television founder Bob Johnson was a son of farmer and one of nine children. He has no business experience, yet he started and became a Billionaire . Holy chocolate, Let's see how he did it.

Jan 14, 2020

Scott Adams started work as a bank teller. He dabbled in many side hustles but every one of them failed. Finally, just on a whim,he created Dilbert. It grew accidentally and eventually made him a multi-millionaire. Let us see how he did it.

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