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How They Made their Millions

How They Made their Millions

107 episodes

This show hosted by Vijay Peduru 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. Keep Rocking.. my friends.

Podcasts

107: Charles Kettering - From a poor farm boy to a multi-millionaire

Published: Dec. 29, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 58 seconds

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106: Warby Parker - Starting in an apartment to building a billion dollar company

Published: Dec. 15, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 37 seconds

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105: George Soros - From a penniless clerk to a billionaire

Published: Dec. 1, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 17 seconds

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104: EventBrite : Julia Hartz - From a 9-5 job to a multi-millionaire founder

Published: Nov. 17, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes

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103: Radio One - Cathy Hughes - A poor girl with no resources to a Multi-millionaire media icon

Published: Nov. 3, 2020, 11 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 19 seconds

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102: Ring: Jamie Siminoff - From a back-to-back failure to a multi-millionaire

Published: Sept. 22, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes

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101: Dr. Bronner’s - Emil Bronner : From an Asylum inmate to a multi-millionaire

Published: Sept. 1, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 21 seconds

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100: Andrew Carnegie - A poor boy earning $1.20 a week to a billionaire

Published: Aug. 4, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 31 seconds

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099: Gary Vaynerchuk: A liquor store worker’s son to a multi-Millionaire celebrity icon

Published: July 14, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 43 seconds

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098: GoDaddy: Bob Parsons - Son of a poor salesman to a billionaire

Published: June 23, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 10 seconds

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097: Virgin - Richard Branson: A Poor student to a Billionaire

Published: June 2, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes

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096: Behance : Scott Belsky - From a Mundane trader to a multi-millionaire

Published: May 5, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 6 seconds

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095: Vice Media: From a worthless drug addict to a multi-millionaire media icon

Published: April 21, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 31 seconds

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094: Yelp - From a software engineer to a multi-millionaire

Published: March 24, 2020, 8 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 11 seconds

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093: Waze - An ordinary programmer to a multimillionaire

Published: March 10, 2020, 8 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 56 seconds

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092: Dollar Shave Club - Starting in an apartment and selling it for a billion dollars.

Published: Feb. 25, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 4 seconds

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091: Clif Bar - From a broke baker living in a garage to a multi-millionaire

Published: Feb. 11, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 22 seconds

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090 : BET- Black Entertainment Television - A son of a farmer to a Billionaire.

Published: Jan. 28, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 55 seconds

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089: Dilbert - From a Bank teller to a world-famous Multi-millionaire cartoonist

Published: Jan. 14, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 25 seconds

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088: Toms of Maine - An insurance salesman to a Multi-Millionaire

Published: Dec. 31, 2019, 9 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 20 seconds

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087: Tinder - A business started from a personal problem to a billion-dollar business

Published: Dec. 17, 2019, 9 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 58 seconds

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

Published: Dec. 3, 2019, 9 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 27 seconds

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

Published: Nov. 19, 2019, 9 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 9 seconds

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

Published: Nov. 5, 2019, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 28 seconds

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083: Reddit - Two friends starting in an apartment to multi-millionaires

Published: Oct. 22, 2019, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 34 seconds

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082: The Body Shop - Starting with no money to building an international cosmetics empire

Published: Oct. 8, 2019, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 14 seconds

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081:CollegeHumor - College students to Millionaires

Published: Sept. 24, 2019, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 56 seconds

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080:Sam Adams Beer - From Kitchen table entrepreneur to a billionaire entrepreneur

Published: Sept. 10, 2019, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 4 seconds

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079: Product Hunt - A one-person startup to selling it for Millions

Published: Aug. 27, 2019, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 15 seconds

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078: ESPN - From a radio jockey to a Multi-millionaire Media icon

Published: Aug. 15, 2019, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 59 seconds

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077: Shazam - How four friends took a trivial idea and became multi-millionaires

Published: Aug. 1, 2019, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 12 seconds

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076: Spanx - A Disneyworld worker putting belts on passengers to a billionaire

Published: July 18, 2019, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 27 seconds

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075: Netscape - How a fresh college grad brought us the internet and became a billionaire

Published: July 4, 2019, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 51 seconds

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074: Nordstrom - Starting with $5 and becoming a billionaire fashion icon

Published: June 20, 2019, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 41 seconds

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073: Angie's List- The daughter of a UPS driver to a multi-millionaire entrepreneur

Published: June 6, 2019, 10 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 39 seconds

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

Published: May 16, 2019, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 13 seconds

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071: TiVo - From a tiny scrappy startup to a billion dollar startup

Published: March 28, 2019, 1 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 12 seconds

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

Published: March 7, 2019, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 56 seconds

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069: OpenTable - A business which almost failed to an astonishing billion dollar business

Published: Dec. 20, 2018, 11 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 12 seconds

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

Published: Oct. 25, 2018, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 13 seconds

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067: Box.com -Rising from multiple failures to becoming a multi-millionaire at a very young age

Published: Sept. 20, 2018, 10 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 57 seconds

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066: Wrigley's Gum - A school dropout to one of the world's richest man

Published: Aug. 16, 2018, 10 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 41 seconds

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065: Craigslist - From a poverty stricken poor boy to a multi-millionaire internet icon

Published: July 26, 2018, noon
Duration: 32 minutes 12 seconds

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064: Noah's Bagels: From Selling on the streets to a Multi-million dollar Bagel chain founder.

Published: June 21, 2018, 9:30 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 23 seconds

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063: Huffington Post - The rise of a poor girl who could barely speak English to a Media Mogul

Published: June 7, 2018, 10 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 13 seconds

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

Published: May 24, 2018, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 38 seconds

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061: Hotmail - An immigrant with less than $300 in his pocket to becoming a multi-millionaire.

Published: May 10, 2018, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 14 seconds

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

Published: April 26, 2018, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 42 seconds

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059: TripAdvisor - Building a business from personal problem to selling it for $100+ million

Published: April 12, 2018, 10:10 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 15 seconds

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058: Baby Einstein - How a stay-at-home mom started a business by accident and became a multi-millionaire

Published: Dec. 21, 2017, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 9 seconds

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057: iContact - How Ryan became a multi-millionaire at a young age

Published: Nov. 16, 2017, 11 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 11 seconds

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

Published: Nov. 9, 2017, 11:15 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 21 seconds

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055: Cranium - Quitting a stressful software job to starting a $70+ million dollar gaming company

Published: Aug. 31, 2017, 10:05 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 41 seconds

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054: Blogger.com - A web developer with no connections to selling it to Google for multiple millions.

Published: Aug. 24, 2017, 10:05 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 5 seconds

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

Published: Aug. 17, 2017, 10:05 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 49 seconds

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052: Archives.com - Two college dropouts selling their company for $90+ million

Published: Aug. 10, 2017, 10:05 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 32 seconds

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051: SoulCycle -Two moms with humble beginnings to a Multi-million dollar fitness empire

Published: Aug. 3, 2017, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 58 seconds

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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

Published: July 27, 2017, 10:05 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 4 seconds

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049: Cheese Cake Factory - How a failed musician who took over his mom's tiny struggling business and built it into a billion dollar business

Published: July 20, 2017, 10:05 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 28 seconds

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048: WeGoLook - A farm girl who didn't know much about technology to a tech multi-millionaire

Published: July 13, 2017, 10:05 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 45 seconds

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047: The Honest company - How Jessica, an actress and a high school dropout built a billion-dollar business empire

Published: July 6, 2017, 10:05 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 2 seconds

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046: Flickr -How a desperate couple who were running out of money built and sold Flickr for $30+ million

Published: June 29, 2017, 10:05 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 43 seconds

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045: Subway Restaurants - A poor kid who started with a borrowed $1000 and built a billion dollar restaurant empire

Published: June 22, 2017, 10:05 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 31 seconds

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044: Tickle - How two college friends sold their company for $90+ million with a simple idea of Personality tests

Published: June 15, 2017, 10:05 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 28 seconds

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

Published: June 8, 2017, 10:05 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 4 seconds

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042: RedLaser - How Two Geeks who failed miserably multiple times and ran out of money became multi-millionaires

Published: June 1, 2017, 10:05 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 28 seconds

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

Published: May 25, 2017, 10:05 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 36 seconds

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040: WireCutter.com - A laid-off tech worker to Gym trainer to a multi-millionaire blogger

Published: May 18, 2017, 10:05 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 22 seconds

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039: Nantucket Nectars: How two guys with no clue about business, started a multi-million dollar Juice empire

Published: May 11, 2017, 10:05 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 22 seconds

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

Published: May 4, 2017, 10:05 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 34 seconds

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037: Firehouse Subs - Two firefighters with no money to a multi-million dollar restaurant empire.

Published: April 27, 2017, 10:05 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 51 seconds

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

Published: April 20, 2017, 10:05 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 40 seconds

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035: Jer's Chocolates - How a software sales person turned his chocolate making hobby into a $10+ million business

Published: April 13, 2017, 10:05 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 33 seconds

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034: Plenty of Fish - How a one-Person startup generated millions in profits and later sold for $500+ million

Published: April 6, 2017, 10:05 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 15 seconds

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033: Whistle: How a seemingly gimmick business - Fitbit for dogs got started and sold for $100+ million

Published: March 30, 2017, 10:05 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 44 seconds

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032: StubHub: How Jeff started StubHub at the worst possible time, survived and sold to eBay for $300+ million

Published: March 23, 2017, 10:05 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 10 seconds

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031: Clark's Botanicals: How Francesco who was paralyzed, sad and dejected built a multi-million dollar business

Published: March 16, 2017, 10:05 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 52 seconds

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030: Mint.com: How Aaron started part-time and made a "sure-to-fail" business successful and sold for $160+ million.

Published: March 9, 2017, 11:05 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 37 seconds

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

Published: March 2, 2017, 11:05 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 18 seconds

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028: Hershey's Chocolates: A fourth grade dropout ,and a farm boy to a world-famous billionaire chocolatier

Published: Feb. 23, 2017, 11:05 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 12 seconds

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027: Auntie Anne's Pretzels: One woman with unbearable grief, started in a farmers market and making multi-millions.

Published: Feb. 16, 2017, 11:05 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 14 seconds

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026: Wufoo : A simple form-creation idea started with little money and later sold for $30+ million

Published: Feb. 9, 2017, 11:05 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 54 seconds

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025: ShutterStock: One person , a $800 initial investment to $2+ billion IPO

Published: Feb. 2, 2017, 11:05 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 43 seconds

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024: Minecraft Games: How a depressed, introverted Geek started a side hustle hobby game and sold it for $2+ Billion

Published: Jan. 26, 2017, 11:05 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 14 seconds

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023: HotOrNot.com: How two friends totally broke and inexperienced became millionaires with their super-simple dating site

Published: Jan. 19, 2017, 11:05 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 13 seconds

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

Published: Jan. 12, 2017, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 20 seconds

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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

Published: Jan. 5, 2017, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 26 seconds

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

Published: Jan. 2, 2017, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 40 seconds

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019: Method : How two friends started in their stinky little apartment and grew Method to $100+ million

Published: Dec. 29, 2016, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 12 seconds

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018: LifeisGood: Living in a van, eating peanut butter sandwiches to a $100+ million company – The story of Life is Good and the power of optimism

Published: Dec. 26, 2016, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 22 seconds

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017: CDBaby: A small-time musician with no background in tech and business, started with $500 and sold his business for $19+ million

Published: Dec. 22, 2016, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 12 seconds

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016: 1-800-flowers.com : The rags-to-riches story of Jim - A Bartender to a highly-successful multi-millionaire

Published: Dec. 19, 2016, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 36 seconds

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015: Nobu Restaurants: Chef Nobu’s fabulous rise from Suicide-attempting Restauranteur to HollyWood Celebrity Restauranteur to multi-millionaire

Published: Dec. 15, 2016, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 32 seconds

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014: Club Penguin: Bootstrapped by borrowing from credit cards, focused on one niche area and sold to Disney for $325+ million

Published: Dec. 8, 2016, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 55 seconds

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013: TwitTV: How Leo Laporte accidentally bootstrapped a multimillion dollar empire From Podcasts

Published: Dec. 5, 2016, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 41 seconds

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012: Amy's Kitchen: How one couple turned their frozen food problem into a multimillion dollar organic powerhouse

Published: Nov. 3, 2016, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 49 seconds

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011: PetFinder.com: How Betsy started a hobby pet website and sold for $25+ million

Published: Oct. 29, 2016, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 44 seconds

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

Published: Oct. 27, 2016, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 5 seconds

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009: Kiss My Face : Not knowing anything about the business to a 75+million year business

Published: Oct. 23, 2016, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 43 seconds

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008: IMDB: Movie watching hobby business Sold to Amazon for multiple millions

Published: Sept. 15, 2016, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 16 seconds

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007: LittleMissMatched: Wacky Mismatched socks idea to a smash hit with 30+ million in revenue

Published: Sept. 9, 2016, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 28 seconds

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006: Geox: Hole-in-shoe idea to Billion Dollars

Published: Sept. 7, 2016, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 49 seconds

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005:TreeHugger: Tiny Green movement blog to a $10million blog

Published: Sept. 5, 2016, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 24 seconds

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004: Monster Audio: From Jobless and broke to a multi-millionaire

Published: Sept. 3, 2016, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 4 seconds

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003: GeekSquad: Starting with $200 and selling to Best Buy for multiple millions

Published: Sept. 1, 2016, 10:30 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 6 seconds

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002: Build-a-Bear: How Maxine quit her lifeless job-followed her passion and built a multi-million dollar business

Published: Aug. 26, 2016, 4:17 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 19 seconds

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001: California Pizza Kitchen(CPK) : How two friends built the multimillion-dollar restaurant chain by quitting their stressful day jobs

Published: Aug. 20, 2016, 1:29 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 29 seconds

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