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John Paul DeJoria: Business Lessons That Turned a $700 Startup Into Billion-Dollar Brands | Entrepreneurship | E407

Jul 13, 2026 · 1 hr 13 min

John Paul DeJoria is proof that entrepreneurs can build extraordinary businesses without extraordinary resources. After experiencing poverty, homelessness, rejection, and the collapse of the funding he needed to launch John Paul Mitchell Systems, he kept going with just $700, selling door to door and creating products so good people wanted to reorder them. Those hard-earned lessons helped him buil…