Robert Bell was your normal American kid from Miami beach. Growing up, he worked as a lifeguard at a resort near his house. He got a tan, saved a few lives, and had some fun under the sun...
John S. Pemberton was born in Knoxville, Georgia. At 19, he got his license to practice Thomsonian principles (basically, forget traditional medicine—we’ll concoct some drugs using a bunch of plants). Later, he took a more traditional route with medical and pharmacy school and became a doctor and pharmacist. But he didn’t do that for long...
You might know Mr. Wonderful from Shark Tank. To jog your memory, he’s the bald guy always swindling entrepreneurs into licensing and royalty deals. Kevin O’Leary made his fortune from building The Learning Company, a software company that made computer programs and games that helped kids improve their reading and math scores. But his journey becoming Mr. Wonderful started long before that...
During his first year of college, Justin Roiland made some friends who shared his sense of humor and started making short films and spoofs for fun. After college, they all decided to move to LA. That’s where the action was...
Roy and Ryan Seiders grew up with an infatuation with being outside. By the time they graduated, they were both entrepreneurs in the outdoors industry. Ryan had a fishing rod company and Roy built boats...
After developing his skills in junior college and throwing cheese as a starting pitcher for Indiana University, Chad Martin finally got his shot in professional baseball. He was drafted in the 10th round by the Cubs, but an injury got to him. He took a break from his professional career as a baseball player to fix the problem, and went back home (Lexington, KY) to coach a high school team while he trained...
When you were a little kid, you probably dreamed of becoming something like an astronaut, firefighter, vet, or even a president. Young Larry David probably dreamed of professions like that too, but his mom had a different dream for him: a mailman for the US postal service. Honestly, it’s a great career. It has job security, a government pension, and it’s not dangerous (save the occasional aggressive dog)...
We are headed up to vacationland. Yes, the great state of Maine. Let’s make a quick pitstop in a little town called Freeport. It’s 1911. Leon Leonwood Bean (you read that right) goes out shoot some duck and comes back with a problem. His feet are wet. Tragic...
Today, when you think Pixar, you also think Disney. But it didn't start out that way. When Steve Jobs was fired from his own company at Apple for a short time, he purchased a part of the computer graphics division from Lucasfilm for a cool $5 milly. He poured another $5 million into the company to grow it. Pixar was born...
Rick Corman learned the value of hard work from his father who was a farmer in Jessamine Country, Kentucky. As hard as his father worked, there were times when his family didn't have enough money to live comfortably. His dad would sometimes give Rick and his siblings the last of his cash just so they could eat lunch...
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