How They Made Their Millions

By Vijay PeduruBusiness Entrepreneurship

How They Made Their Millions episodes

October 29, 2016 011: PetFinder.com: How Betsy started a hobby pet website and sold for $25+ million
Betsy Saul did not set out to make money. She couldn't see bad things happen to Pets. She started as a service to help pets and it grew into a business and produced millions as a side benefit. Here is who she did it.
15 min
October 27, 2016 010: Chobani: How an immigrant with simple yogurt business beat the giant companies and became a billionaire.
We all heard about internet unicorns --the billion dollar-- valuation companies. but can that be done with a non-internet business that too with a simple Yogurt business. Hamdi Ulukaya an immigrant proved it can be done and became a billionaire. Here is how he did it...
14 min
October 23, 2016 009: Kiss My Face : Not knowing anything about the business to a 75+million year business
Can you start a business without knowing anything about the business and still make millions.

Most people will say No, but Bob MacLeod and Steve Byckiewicz proved that it can be done. They just started and learnt along the way.

Let us find out who they did it.. Pretty interesting
8 min
September 15, 2016 008: IMDB: Movie watching hobby business Sold to Amazon for multiple millions
Can a movie watching hobby be turned into a serious business that too a multimillion dollar business. Col Needham did this with one of the world's top entertainment website IMDB.com and sold to Amazon. Let us check out how he did it.
12 min
September 09, 2016 007: LittleMissMatched: Wacky Mismatched socks idea to a smash hit with 30+ million in revenue
Can an insane idea of selling mismatched socks succeed?. Who would want to wear them.. right? Wrong..,Jonah Staw proved it will succeed by building LittleMissMatched and generating multiple millions. Let us see how he did it.
9 min
September 07, 2016 006: Geox: Hole-in-shoe idea to Billion Dollars
While there are already big players in the shoe business, Can someone come with a new idea for shoes and succeed and also make tons of money. Mario Polegato did it with Geox and made it a billion dollar company. with a weird idea —having holes in shoes— Let us check out how he did it..
6 min
September 05, 2016 005:TreeHugger: Tiny Green movement blog to a $10million blog
Can you build a high trafficked blog with your passion and also make money.

Graham Hill did it with TreeHugger.com and sold for $10 million. Here is how he did it.
17 min
September 03, 2016 004: Monster Audio: From Jobless and broke to a multi-millionaire
Can a person born to Chinese immigrants who was broke and no job, build a 100million-plus business with his passion for music. Check out how Monster Audio's Noel Lee did it.
12 min
September 01, 2016 003: GeekSquad: Starting with $200 and selling to Best Buy for multiple millions
Robert Stephens started Geek Squad with just himself and $200 investment. He did some fascinating marketing without any money. and he grew to thousands of employees and sold Geek Squad to Best buy for Millions. How did he do it. Let us check out.
26 min
August 26, 2016 002: Build-a-Bear: How Maxine quit her lifeless job-followed her passion and built a multi-million dollar business
Maxine had a good job with pretty good money. Years passed by and she felt a void in her heart. She wanted to do something which she loved and leave her mark in this world.

Find out how she quit her job, started her passion business called build-a-bear and became Rich(multi-millionaire) and happy in the process.
14 min

About How They Made Their Millions

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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(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.