Founder Fodder

For Founders, Makers and Tinkerers

Jimmy Mrbeast Donaldson

Jimmy Mrbeast Donaldson

From a sick, broke Carolina kid to a $5,000,000,000 attention machine.

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Brian Chesky

Brian Chesky

From maxed out credit cards and airbeds to a $75 billion travel giant.

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Jessica Alba

Jessica Alba

From a sick kid in hospital corridors to a $2.1 billion brand launch.

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Kendra Scott

Kendra Scott

From a $500 spare bedroom hustle to a $900 million jewelry empire.

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Mark Cuban

Mark Cuban

From door to door garbage bags to a $5.7 billion dot com cash out. :contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0}

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Barbara Corcoran

Barbara Corcoran

From the dyslexic 'dumb kid' to a $5 billion real estate empire and $100 million shark.

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James Dyson

James Dyson

From maxed out loans and 5,127 failures to a $14.8B inventor with a £6.6B empire.

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Whitney Wolfe

Whitney Wolfe

From exiled cofounder to the youngest woman to take a company public and a $1.07B a year platform.

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Sara Blakely

Sara Blakely

From a $5,000 gamble and a pair of scissors to a $1.2B shapewear empire.

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Linus Torvalds

Linus Torvalds

The shy, solitary Finnish student just wanted a better operating system.

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Steve Ells

Steve Ells

From a scrappy $85K loan to a $1B fortune.

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Sundar Pichai

Sundar Pichai

From a two room Chennai flat to leading a $3.4 trillion empire.

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