How "Everywhere Millionaires" get rich through boring businesses, not Silicon Valley startups
This article previews Owen Zidar and Eric Zwick's forthcoming book "The Everywhere Millionaire," which profiles entrepreneurs who build wealth through unglamorous, mundane businesses (like gutter sales, toilet paper distribution, and quiche-making) rather than the high-tech, world-changing ventures typical of Silicon Valley. These millionaires operate in plain sight, pursuing boring industries with relentless determination until they become wealthy.
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They find something boring, often catatonically so, then pursue it with star-spangled doggedness until they become rich.
A typical character sells gutters in Texas. Another distributes toilet paper in New Jersey.
One woman in California began baking quiches for her own parties and simply did not stop. Two decades later she was making more than a million quiches a day and owned a yacht.
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