How They Made Their Millions

By Vijay PeduruBusiness Entrepreneurship

How They Made Their Millions episodes

October 11, 2022 131: SlideShare - How they turned a personal problem into a Multi-million dollar business
Rashmi Sinha & Jonathan Boutelle wanted to embed PowerPoint presentations into other websites, but they could not find a solution. So how did they turn this personal problem into a Multi-million dollar business. Let us check out their story.
21 min
September 20, 2022 130: Public storage - The son of a poor farmer to a billionaire
How did Wayne Hughes who was born to a poor farmer started Public Storage to store people's excess belongings and became a billionaire. Let us check out his story.
22 min
September 06, 2022 129: SmugMug - From a homeless kid to a multi-millionaire
Chris MacAskill was homeless and had to deal with a sick mother. Yet he rose through his challenges and started SmugMug and lived a fulfilling life and also became a multi-millionaire in this process.Let us check out his story.
23 min
August 23, 2022 128: NYX Cosmetics - An immigrant not able to speak English to a multi-millionaire fashion icon
Toni Ko's parents immigrated to America, and she did not understand English. Yet she struggled and at a young age started NYX cosmetics and sold it for multiple millions to the world's largest cosmetics company. Let us check out her story.
21 min
August 09, 2022 127: BaseCamp - From being Contrarian and going against the status quo to building a multi-million dollar business
Jason Fried and David Hanson, went against the status quo and built basecamp by doing the opposite of what we think successful companies are supposed to do and yet grew it into a multi-million dollar company. Let us see how they did it.
20 min
July 26, 2022 126: Bloomingdale's - From a single tiny store to a billion-dollar high-end luxury store chain
Bloomingdale is a high-end luxury department chain started in New York. It started as a tiny shop selling only one item. Yet it grew into a billion-dollar high-end luxury store chain. Let us check out their story.
23 min
July 12, 2022 125: MyFitnessPal - From side-hustler to multi-millionaire
Mike Lee wanted to lose some weight before his wedding, but there was no good digital solution. So he decided to start his own app as a side hustle and it grew beyond his dreams with more than 100+ million users. Let use check out his story.
19 min
June 28, 2022 124: GitHub: Tom Preston-Werner - From dead-broke to a multi-millionaire.
GitHub is a well-known website that brings together developers from all over the globe to work together on code. But how did Tom Preston-Werner and Chris Wanstrath took GitHub from a "weekend project-started in-bar" to one of the world's most powerful software development services that Microsoft purchased for $7.5 billion?
Let us check it out.
19 min
June 14, 2022 123: Eddie Bauer: From a high-school dropout to a multi-millionaire outdoor goods icon.
Eddie Bauer grew up loving the outdoors. To support his family, he dropped out of school and working odd jobs, he later opened his own tiny outdoor shop. He dedicated his life to making gear that made life easier for outdoorsmen. He faced many problems, but slowly it grew and today it has more than 500 locations and is sold throughout the world.
Let us check out his story.
21 min
May 31, 2022 122: King.com(Candy Crush game): Riccardo Zacconi - Almost Bankrupt to a multi-million dollar gaming icon.
Riccardo Zacconi started king. com to build games . His business nearly went bankrupt. The Dot-com bubble had burst and Zacconi had put all of his money into his company and he would lose it all. How did he come out of this, how did he create the Candy Crush game, which became a huge hit, made him a multi-millionaire and made the game a global cultural phenomenon. Let's check it out.
19 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.