Thomas Edison said, "To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."
To make a billion dollars with your invention, it needs to catch on.
Here are 4 people whose ideas caught on...
Brad Hughes - Real estate exec thought of putting up a bunch of lockers som people could store stuff. Hughes Public Storage is valued at $5.3 billion.
Jeff Bezos - dreamed up the ides of selling books over the Internet. Amazon.com is worth $4.4 billion.
Michele Ferrero - solved an unrealized problem--the lack of a spreadable breakfast chocolate. Nutella belongs to Ferrero brands now worth $10 billion.
James Dyson - ran through 5,127 prototypes until he perfected an upright vacuum that used spinning technology to maintain constant suction. He is worth $1.6 billion.
What idea do you have that is worth a billion?
Why aren't your pursuing it?
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