Chris Pyle spends the entirety of his workdays wearing a white tank top and boxer shorts, sitting in a recliner. It’s an unusual setting for a mechanic, but a profitable one. Pyle started answering strangers’ questions about their gas and diesel engines on JustAnswer as a side hustle in October 2006. It was quickly lucrative: … Read more
At age 12, Bella Lin spent an hour every week “scraping, scrubbing and power washing” excrement off her two guinea pig cages. “It was essentially a [mini] porta potty,” Lin, now 17, tells CNBC Make It. The experience was taxing and gross enough to prompt Lin to design her own cages: first on notebook paper, … Read more
At age 10, Diane Hendricks decided she wanted to work in the business world. It took years to achieve that goal, and decades for her career to build a fortune. This week, Hendricks topped Forbes’ recent American’s Richest Self-Made Women list for the seventh consecutive year. Her estimated $20.9 billion net worth comes largely from … Read more
Kyle Dake knows he’s old. The 33-year-old Olympian is going to Paris this summer as the oldest wrestler on team USA. But while many other wrestlers his age have since hung up their singlets and moved into coaching positions, Dake still has his sights set on taking home a gold medal. That’s because the father … Read more
If Tony’s Chocolonely founder Teun van de Keuken had his way, he would’ve ended up behind bars long before he created his popular chocolate company. The Dutch journalist made an attempt to get himself arrested in 2005, showing up to a police station and declaring himself a criminal. The crime? Fueling slavery by knowingly purchasing … Read more
For the better part of the past 110 years, Stanley was doing just fine. The drinkware manufacturer had made a place for itself in the knapsacks of outdoorsmen and lunchboxes of blue collar workers with its bottles and thermoses that kept food and drinks hot — or cold — for hours on end. The Seattle-based … Read more
