Amazing Founder Stories

Everyone hates working out in the gym, Yet these two moms invented a fitness that made exercise effective and joyful. They had very humble beginning and started in a sublet scrappy studio and built a Multi-million dollar indoor cycling fitness empire.

Jan Koum migrated to America in his teens. His family was poor,Yet this kid rose to build an app called Whatsapp. It grew like crazy and was purchased for a whopping $15+ billion. Holy smokes. How is this possible. Let us check out this unbelievable story.

David set aside his dreams of becoming a professional musician to help his parents with their struggling cheesecake business. He helped them open a small restaurant and today it has become a billion dollar global phenomenon. Let us check it out.

Robin's story is an inspiring one . She grew up on a farm, had a bunch of personal and business setbacks. Yet she bounced back and finally sold her startup for 30+ million. Let us find out how she did it.

Jessica was a popular Hollywood actress. She had a personal problem and could not find products to solve her problem. So, she started her own business and made it into a multi-million dollar company. Holy Danish pastry. Let us check out how she did it.

Caterina and Stewart started building an online multi-player game and money was running out. They accidentally hit upon an photo sharing idea-- Flickr-- and built it and sold for $30+ million. Holy Crispy Croissants. Let us check out, how they did it.

Before he turned 20, Fred used a borrowed $1,000 investment to open a sandwich shop in Connecticut. Today, Subway has more than 40,000 locations worldwide and Fred became a billionaire. Holy Macaroni, How did he do it, Let us find out.

James and Rick were studying at Harvard and they accidentally hit upon an "Personality Testing" idea. They were close to shutting it down, but they persisted.  They sold the company  for $90+ million.  Let us check out how they did it

Ingvar was a poor boy and his poverty propelled him to work hard and become entrepreneurial from a very young age. He later broke the rules of retail and created the world-famous IKEA and became a billionaire. Let us check out this awesome story.

Vikas and Jeff wanted to build an app for receipt scanning, but it failed. They had another idea and that too failed. Finally they built Redlaser which was a hit and sold to eBay for multiple millions. Let us check out how they did it.

Mary kay Ash had a very tough childhood growing up as a poor girl. She faced many personal and professional setbacks and was depressed. She finally started a cosmetics company with $5000 and became a billionaire. Let us check out, how she built it.

Brian Lam was laid-off from his tech job  and he trained himself  as a professional fighter, but he switched careers and finally started the Wirecutter website. He sold it to The New York Times for $30+ million. Let us see how he did it.

Tom Scott and Tom First started by delivering food and other stuff to boats in a harbor.  They  ultimately started a Juice company by accident which was sold for  $100+ million dollars. Holy Choco, Let us check out how they did it.

Reid Hoffman was bad at academics , then he started and failed at his first startup. Yet he persevered and later started Linkedin. He  sold it to Microsoft for $20+  billion. Holy Tasty Strawberry pie. How did he do it. Let us check it out.

Two firefighter brothers Chris and Robin were  always looking for ways to increase their income.  They failed many times and finally built a  multi-million dollar restaurant empire. Holy Pecan Pie, Let us check out how they did it.

Mike and Matt started GrubHub as a side project while working on their day jobs as computer programmers. They bootstrapped it with their own money and took GrubHub to a 3+ billion IPO. Holy Chocolatey Doughnut. How did they do it. Let us check it out…

Jerry was a sales manager but he did not like it. He wanted to start a software  business but he ended up starting a chocolate business.  He did not know anything but he made it into a $10million business. Let us check out how he did it.

There were huge dating websites with plenty of cash and thousands of employees. Can one person and a new entrant take on these giants and still succeed and make millions with zero employees.  Markus did it with PlentyofFish.com. Holy Apple Pie!, Let us find out how he did it.

If you look at it , Fitbit for dogs seems like a gimmick business. Who would think that this will become successful. Yet Ben Jacobs proved that this is a worthwhile business and started it and finally sold it for $100+ million. Let us see how he did it.

Jeff ran out of money and was not able to pay his employees. On top of this, his company got sued, yet he kept pushing forward and succeed and sold StubHub to ebay for $300+ million. Let us check out how he did it.