Evan Williams started Pyra to build a collaboration tool but built a blog as a side project to be used internally. He introduced it to the publi…
I am sure you heard Zumba and probably went to a Zumba class or danced to Zumba with your gaming console. This is the Zumba founding Story.
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Brian and Matt had a simple idea of enabling anyone to search for family history across centuries. Initially they did not have this idea, but thro…
SoulCycle grew out of co-founders Julie Rice and Elizabeth Cutler’s dream of an exercise studio that provided an efficient and “joyful” workout in ve…
For the 50th Episode, I choose a special story which you will love and one of my personal favorites too.
Jan Koum migrated to America in his t…
David Overton set aside his dreams of becoming a professional drummer in the 1970s to help his parents with their struggling wholesale cheesecake …
Robin’s story is an exciting, inspiring story. She grew up on a farm, had a bunch of setbacks
then she ended up with this idea that you and I…
Jessica Alba made her debut as a teen actress in Dark Angel and acted in several movies including playing as Sue Storm in the Fantastic Four movi…
Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield started building an online multi-player Game and money was running out but they were not able to finish the …
At the age of 17, Fred used a family friend’s $1,000 investment to open a sandwich shop in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Today, Subway has more tha…
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.
Not many people knew Ingvar Kamprad, but almost all of us know IKEA the company he created.
From one of the most remote, poverty-stricken corn…