| | All New! How I Made My Millions
Premieres Tonight 8p ET | | | | CNBC's "How I Made My Millions" returns tonight. We'll go behind the curtain to reveal how everyday people have taken ordinary ideas and turned them into extraordinary businesses. Tonight we'll share the story of James Burton Carpenter and Tom Dickson. See how these entrepreneurs took a risk, believed in their dreams and are successful thanks to a little luck and a lot of hard work.
| | | |  | | "King of the Hill"- Burton Snowboards | Jake Burton Carpenter left his job in finance to pioneer a sport that was virtually unknown: snowboarding. Despite little training in design or construction, he built his first snowboards inside a Vermont barn. A decade later, Burton would be selling his iconic boards in 33 countries, the dominant player in a fast-growing industry.
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| |  | | "Mix Master"—Blendtec | Tom Dickson, a self-proclaimed poor student, went on to invent several successful kitchen machines including the Total Blender-- his best-selling product that pulverizes anything from glowsticks to iPads in the smash hit YouTube series, "Will it Blend?" Now, his multi-million dollar company, Blendtec, also boasts hundreds of millions of internet views.
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|  | | "Millions in the Making?" - Zane's Cycles | Chris Zane starting repairing bikes when he was 12. By age 16, he owned and managed his own bike store in Connecticut. Today, he has embraced a "customer for life" philosophy that has helped to make him one of the largest distributors of bicycles in North America—and growing.
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