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A Los Angeles man who lost his job during Covid built a multimillion-dollar plant business from his apartmentAfter losing his job during the Covid-19 pandemic, Los Angeles resident Brandon Hurst began selling plants from his apartment to make ends ...- Meet Mahmoud Felfel and Hammad Syed, two Egyptian founders who built a text-to-speech tool; their voice AI startup was later acquired by MetaMahmoud Felfel and Hammad Syed are the founders of PlayAI. Both of them Egyptian entrepreneurs who had previously worked at Dubai-based cla...
- In 2016, AJ launched Carrd with just $500; by 2024, his one-page website builder was estimated to generate $1.5 million a yearAJ defines Carrd as a platform which allows people to create simple and single-page websites. Notably, people do not need to have coding sk...
- Meet Hannah Pollack, a former marine who spent $20 on an ice cream sandwich side hustle in 2016; 10 years later, her business was making $3 million a monthPollack and Xavier worked on the business. They started making ice cream sandwiches for just $20. Usually, this is not a very big investmen...
- Meet Joe Popelas, who started an AI ebook business with just $500; two years later, it was valued at more than $1 millionHis journey began soon after he graduated from high school in 2020. By then, he had already explored how to use GPT-3 and also create the b...
- In 2026, three founders launched an AI assistant with its own phone number, it can book flights, order groceries; the startup later reached a $300 million valuationTab is designed to work through messaging platforms that people already use. It includes platforms like WhatsApp and iMessage. Users can se...
- Meet Kevin Corey, the high school business teacher who started a wipes brand with $14,000; by 2025, it was generating $3.8 millionCorey is the co-founder of Stall Mates. It is a brand of flushable bathroom wipes that he built with his teaching career. All of this start...
- Meet Ali Partovi, man who bet on young talent and backed Cursor and Kalshi; his $150 million Neo fund reached $1.2 billion in value by the end of 2025Partovi is an entrepreneur and angel investor. He founded Neo in 2017. He had earlier invested in technology companies, which included Face...
- Meet Becky DeGrossa, who left IBM after 20 years to become a therapist, her side business hit $2 million in revenueDeGrossa is the founder of CounselingWise. It is a marketing agency that helps therapists grow their practices through websites, search eng...
- Meet Samantha and Kevin Dwoskin, couple who started a mac-and-cheese side hustle in 2023; about 20 months later, Boss Cow had crossed $1 million in annual revenueThe couple used their personal experiences with food. Kevin had worked as a banking regulatory compliance consultant for 11 years. He had r...
- Meet Leena Pettigrew, IT analyst whose houseplant hobby made $148,600 in a year from her garage while she kept her full-time jobHer journey into the plant business began as a hobby. Pettigrew and her husband, Marquise, were redecorating their home in 2022. They wante...
- Meet Scott Mathson, who built Plink with just $100 in 2019; by 2025, his podcast-link service was processing 8.2 million requests a monthPlink provides a service that creates smart links that direct listeners to podcast on their proffered listening platforms. It does not shar...
- Meet Jim Yu, who co-founded BrightEdge with just $5,000 in 2007; by 2025, the SEO software company was generating an estimated $100 million a yearJim Yu made his own path and achieved success. Despite not having a huge amount of money initially, Yu started his business. He co-founded ...
- From Rs 3,500 salary to Rs 1.5 crore per month: How this Ghaziabad man built an e-bike company with his wife's savingsGhaziabad's Krishna Grover, who started his career with a monthly salary of Rs 3,500, left his corporate job to build Herald E-Bike with su...
- Who is Lori Cheek? Entrepreneur who faced rejection from all 5 Shark Tank investors in 2014, here's how she refused to give up on her dating startupCheek founded Cheekd in 2010 as an online dating business built around the idea of helping people connect in real life. She appeared on Sha...
- Meet Anna-Marie Ortiz, who launched Cool Aunt Cleaners with just $2,000 in 2023; by 2024, her cleaning business was generating an estimated $120,000 a yearAnna-Marie Ortiz grew up in Kansas, and worked at technology startups. Later she started her cleaning business. Before this, she had also w...
- Meet Armaan Dhanda, who left college at 22 to turn microbes into tiny factories, his biotech startup raised $2.6 millionDhanda co-founded the company with Samyak Baid, and they met at the National University of Singapore (NUS). The main approach of the busine...
- Meet Isabella Bedoya, who borrowed $20 to make pesto when her bank account was $300 overdrawn, her first experiment generated $120 in sales in a dayInitially, Bedoya used to prepare food at home, and shared work with people online. To her surprise, the response was good, and her homemad...
- Meet Sabba Keynejad, man who was rejected by Y Combinator but kept building VEED, his startup later reached $40M in annual recurring revenueIn 2018, with Timur Mamedov, he built the company. They had only one idea, and it was to make people edit videos easily, and create clips d...
- Meet Arlan Rakhmetzhanov, young entrepreneur whose first AI product failed, his startup Nozomio later raised $6.2 millionRakhmetzhanov is the founder of Nozomio, an AI startup that has changed its focus since its early days. He launched an education technology...
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