Codie Sanchez profiles five billionaires who got rich in unglamorous industries: Joseph Grendys in chicken processing, Artie Moreno in billboards, Wayne Huizenga in waste management, Kim Ying-Quan in pig farming, and Reinhold in screw distribution. None of them needed a tech startup or a viral idea.
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How do you make a ton of money in boring businesses? Well, here's five boring business billionaires. The first one, Joseph Grendy's. He's worth three bill with chicken process. He processes like 23 tons of chicken weekly. I bet he also doesn't eat chicken anymore. Number two, Artie Moreno. Net worth 3.6 billion. How billboards. After coming back from Vietnam, he was hired by outdoor, which is like a really big billboard business. And he bought it as an employee with a partner seller financing. We've also got this guy, Wayne Huzinga. He's actually in my new book, Main street millionaire. Net worth 2.8 billion. Business Trash Hong Kong. He began driving a garbage truck and then grew to a $57 billion company. Number four. I don't know how to pronounce this. Kim ying Quinn Yang 19.9 billion businesses pigs. He actually studied pig farming at university as one does. He now has millions of pigs, but he only started with 22. Number five, Reinhold worth net worth 16.2 billion. What does he do? He took over his dad's small wholesale crew business and built it up later to one of Germany's biggest.