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 ou...
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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(M...
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20 of 151 episodes150: 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...
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 pla...
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 cosme...
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 chall...
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...
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...
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 appro...
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...
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 busi...
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 edu...
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 in...
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 busine...
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 aw...
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 p...
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 sto...
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...
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 inspirin...
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...
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,...