Aden + Anais: Raegan Moya-Jones (2019)
Cotton muslin baby blankets are commonplace in Australia, where Raegan Moya-Jones grew up. But when she started a new life and family in NYC, she couldn't find them anywhere. So in 2006, she started t...
26 Elo 201950min
Stonyfield Yogurt: Gary Hirshberg (2017)
In 1983, two hippie farmers decided to sell homemade organic yogurt to help raise money for their educational farm in New Hampshire. As the enterprise grew into a business, it faced one near-death exp...
19 Elo 201958min
Serial Entrepreneur: Marcia Kilgore (2018)
After high school, Marcia Kilgore moved to New York City with $300 in her pocket and no real plan. One step at a time, she became a successful serial entrepreneur. First, she used her high school body...
12 Elo 201954min
Shopify: Tobias Lütke
In 2004, German programmer Tobias Lütke was living in Ottawa with his girlfriend. An avid snowboarder, he wanted to launch an online snowboard shop, but found the e-commerce software available at the ...
5 Elo 20191h 4min
Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian
Angie and Dan Bastian weren't trying to disrupt an industry or build a massive company – they just wanted to put aside some money for their kids' college fund. In 2001, Dan stumbled across an internet...
29 Heinä 20191h 4min
Dyson: James Dyson (2018)
In 1979, James Dyson had an idea for a new vacuum cleaner — one that didn't use bags. It took him five years to perfect the design, building more than 5,000 prototypes in his backyard shed. He then tr...
22 Heinä 201943min
EO Products: Susan Griffin-Black & Brad Black
In the early 1990s, Susan Griffin-Black was working for Esprit in San Francisco. On a business trip to London, she walked into a Covent Garden apothecary shop, picked up a bottle of lavender oil and t...
15 Heinä 201959min
Teach For America: Wendy Kopp (2017)
In 1989, college senior Wendy Kopp was trying to figure out how to improve public education in the US. For her senior thesis, she proposed creating a national teaching corps that would recruit recent ...
8 Heinä 201943min
