COPY This Strategy To Get Rich

These three brothers made billions copying ideas and never went to jail. Meet the Samware brothers. Mark, Oliver, Alexander. In 99, they had an idea, saw how successful eBay was in the US and just thought they'd bring it to Germany. So they did. They launched Alondo, and 100 days later, they had sold it to eBay for $53 million. This became their blueprint. The strategy was simple. Spot successful US Companies, replicate them quickly in Europe, sell them back to the original company, or go public. They went on to clone Zappos, so they became Zalando, Airbnb, which became Wimdo, Groupon became Citadeal, and dozens more. Today, they're each worth $1.2 billion. I guess you could say being called a copycat isn't so bad when you make that much money.