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Strange Success with Jane Wells

Strange Success with Jane Wells

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 Strange Success with Jane Wells. CNBC’s Jane Wells finds rags-to-riches stories with a twist.,Strange Success is about people who come up with crazy ideas to solve a problem you may not even realize exist. They take an even crazier journey to success, filled with failures, rejection, and stupidity. If you like weird stories with profitable outcomes, Strange Success is for you.2025 CNBC Economics Management Management & Leadership
Episodes
  • Adventure Combat Ops

    Adventure Combat Ops
    Apr 2 2019

    Combat veterans, many of them from Special Ops, have found success in Las Vegas, where they’ve created a business that allows people to battle zombies in a global apocalypse. It all happens inside a massive facility east of the Strip—bringing in about $2 million a year—and it’s all strangely real. But to the men who created it, these battles are not just about money. They’re therapy.

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    19 mins
  • Vitality Air

    Vitality Air
    Mar 26 2019

    Two bored realtors in Calgary, Alberta, kept trying to come up with a “big idea” to make money. One day they were looking at a bottle of Fiji water and wondered, “If people will buy water from Fiji, will they buy air from Canada?” Apparently they will, especially if the air come from one of the cleanest, most beautiful places on the planet, Canada’s Banff National Park. 
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    16 mins
  • CitiKitty

    CitiKitty
    Mar 19 2019
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    19 mins
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