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James Altucher Show
Paul Dejoria (Paul Mitchel)
This man was once homeless and was a door to door encyclopedia salesman for ten years. Now he owns Paul Mitchell and Patrón.
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Business of Fashion
Huda Kattan (Huda Beauty)
A story of identity at its core Huda embraced her real name and turned her beauty blog to a 1 billion dollar business.
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Indie Hackers
Christy Laurence (Plann)
With zero experience in business, apps, and software development; and in just two years she turned her idea into a $1 million dollar business based around Instagram.
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Start to Sale
Ari Weinzweig (Zingerman's)
Took him 11 years to start a deli in Ann Arbor Michigan with a ‘community/anarchistic’ business model that now owns 13 separate business under the Zingerman’s umbrella, one of which is a mail order service.
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Tim Ferriss Show
Tobi Lutke (Shopify)
The other big name company here but still less popular of a story, Shopify was first an online snowboard shop, and now a e-commerce platform with a market cap of $21 Billion dollars.
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Wilson
All the popular success stories are too old enough now for it to be interesting and you just realized that Guy Raz’s How I Built This is just a large ad for Stanford’s MBA program so what’s left? Which “coming up” stories are successful enough for it to be “proven” but secret enough for it to be a gem? Well you’re in luck. This week on Wilson from how Paul Dejoria built Paul Mitchell (we know it’s big but the story has been less heard) to Christy Laurence on how she built Plann (it’s an Instagram Scheduling App) these five episodes, each with their unique business perspective will give you the inspiration you’ll need for the week. Enjoy!