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How We Cooked Up a Business–and Turned Followers Into Funding

No 93 KIM LEWIS & TIM LEWIS

CURLMIX

THREE-YEAR REVENUE GROWTH: 4,149.7%

Kim Lewis launched her first business, a social network for women with curly hair, with money her husband, Tim, won on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Luck? More like strategy. After seeing him rip through question after question while bingeing on old episodes one night, she got him booked him for a tryout and a trip to New York. On the show, he locked in the $25,000 they needed for seed money and bowed

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