5 EPISODES · RING
Jamie Siminoff
Ring founder. Every Shark Tank investor turned him down, and he built it anyway.
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5 EPISODES · MAILCHIMP
Ben Chestnut
Mailchimp co-founder. No investors and no shortcuts, just a side project he refused to give up on.
6 EPISODES · CALENDLY
Tope Awotona
Calendly founder. He emptied his savings and heard no from everyone, and kept going.
5 EPISODES · SPANX
Sara Blakely
SPANX founder. Seven years selling fax machines door to door, then one idea nobody could talk her out of.
5 EPISODES · CLASSPASS
Payal Kadakia
ClassPass founder. The dancer who hid her dancing for years, then built a company around finding your next class.
12 EPISODES · CANVA
Melanie Perkins
Canva co-founder. A design tutor who watched her students struggle, and kept pitching through years of no.
5 EPISODES · CAROL'S DAUGHTER
Lisa Price
Carol's Daughter founder. Bankrupt at 28, she sold creams from her kitchen in baby-food jars at her mother's church flea market.
5 EPISODES · BEAUTY 2 THE STREETZ
Shirley Raines
Beauty 2 the Streetz founder. A paycheck, a one-pan stove and a makeup kit, taken to the people living on Skid Row.