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Best Entrepreneur Movies AND TV Shows
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Movies and TV Shows that highlight ingenuity and perseverance and displays heart and hustle. One Person with a vision can make it happen. (good or bad).


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Movie: Glengarry Glen Ross ( 1992 )
An examination of the machinations behind the scenes at a real estate office.
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Movie: The Banker ( 2020 )
In the 1960s, two African-American entrepreneurs hire a working-class white man to pretend to be the head of their business empire while they pose as a janitor and chauffeur.
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Movie: Boiler Room ( 2000 )
A college dropout, attempting to live up to his father's high standards, gets a job as a broker for a suburban investment firm which puts him on the fast track to success. But the job might not be as legitimate as it first appeared to be.
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Movie: The Wolf of Wall Street ( 2013 )
Based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stock-broker living the high life to his fall involving crime, corruption and the federal government.
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Movie: Tommy Boy ( 1995 )
After his auto-parts tycoon father dies, the overweight, underachieving son teams up with a snide accountant to try and save the family business.
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Movie: American Gangster ( 2007 )
An outcast New York City cop is charged with bringing down Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas, whose real life inspired this partly biographical film.
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Movie: The Social Network ( 2010 )
As Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, he is sued by the twins who claimed he stole their idea and by the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business.
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Movie: The Founder ( 2016 )
The story of Ray Kroc, a salesman who turned two brothers' innovative fast food eatery, McDonald's, into the biggest restaurant business in the world, with a combination of ambition, persistence, and ruthlessness.
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Movie: Steve Jobs ( 2015 )
Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution, to paint a portrait of the man at its epicenter. The story unfolds backstage at three iconic product launches, ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac.
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Movie: Jobs ( 2013 )
The story of Steve Jobs' ascension from college dropout into one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of the 20th century.
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Movie: Limitless ( 2011 )
With the help of a mysterious pill that enables the user to access one hundred percent of his brain abilities, a struggling writer becomes a financial wizard, but it also puts him in a new world with lots of dangers.
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Movie: New Jack City ( 1991 )
A crime lord ascends to power and becomes megalomaniacal while a maverick police detective vows to stop him.
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Movie: The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley ( 2019 )
The story of Theranos, a multi-billion dollar tech company, its founder Elizabeth Holmes, the youngest self-made female billionaire, and the massive fraud that collapsed the company.
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Movie: The Pursuit of Happyness ( 2006 )
A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.
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Movie: Pirates of Silicon Valley ( 1999 )
History of Apple and Microsoft.
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Movie: Better Off Dead ( 1985 )
After his girlfriend ditches him for a boorish ski jock, Lane decides that suicide is the only answer. However, his increasingly inept attempts bring him only more agony and embarrassment. Filled with the wildest teen nightmares.
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TV Show: I Quit ( 2020 )
Following six sets of hopeful entrepreneurs as they leave their steady incomes and retirement plans behind, going all in on their dreams of launching their own businesses; along the way, they will be mentored by three successful business leaders.
 
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TV Show: Halt and Catch Fire ( 2014 )
Halt and Catch Fire is set roughly one year after IBM all but corners the market with the release of its first major product – the IBM PC. In this fictional drama, a former IBM executive, Joe MacMillan plans to reverse engineer the flagship product of his former employer and forces his current company, Cardiff Electric, into the personal computer race. MacMillan enlists the help of Gordon Clark, a great engineer whose unrealized dreams of creating a revolutionary product have created tension in his marriage to Donna, and Cameron Howe, a volatile prodigy who puts her future in jeopardy to join MacMillan's rogue PC project. Halt and Catch Fire thrives on the spirit of innovation and explores what it's like to stand at the forefront of something world-changing and work towards it, no matter the risk.
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TV Show: Silicon Valley ( 2014 )
In the high-tech gold rush of modern Silicon Valley, the people most qualified to succeed are the least capable of handling success. From Mike Judge comes this satire about a programmer whose game-changing algorithm becomes the subject of a valley-wide bidding war.
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Movie: August ( 2009 )
August centers on two brothers fighting to keep their start-up company afloat on Wall Street during August 2001, a month before the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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Movie: Jerry Maguire ( 1996 )
When a sports agent has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent agent with the only athlete who stays with him and his former colleague.
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Movie: Catch Me If You Can ( 2002 )
Barely 21 yet, Frank is a skilled forger who has passed as a doctor, lawyer and pilot. FBI agent Carl becomes obsessed with tracking down the con man, who only revels in the pursuit.
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TV Show: The Men Who Built America ( 2012 )
Miniseries shines a spotlight on the influential builders, dreamers, and believers whose feats transformed the United States, a nation decaying from the inside after the Civil War, into the greatest economic and technological superpower the world had ever seen. The story of a nation at the crossroads and of the people who catapulted it to prosperity. John D. Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford, and J.P. Morgan rose from obscurity and built modern America. Their names hang on street signs, are etched into buildings, and are a part of the fabric of history. These men created the American Dream and were the engine of capitalism as they transformed everything they touched in building the oil, rail, steel, shipping, automobile, and finance industries. Their paths repeatedly crossed as they elected presidents, set economic policies, and influenced major events of the 50 most formative years this country has ever known. From the Civil War to the Great Depression and World War I, they led the way. Using state of the art computer-generated imagery that incorporates 12 million historical negatives, many made available for the first time by the Library of Congress, this series will bring back to life the world they knew and the one they created. The event series will show how these men took a failed experiment in democracy and created the greatest superpower the world has ever seen. We see how their historic achievements came to make the America of today.
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TV Show: The Men Who Built America: Frontiersmen ( 2018 )
Duplicate of http://www.tvmaze.com/shows/26065/frontiersmen
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TV Show: T-Pain's School of Business ( 2018 )
First, he mastered hip-hop. Now T-Pain takes us into the world of young disruptors, revealing the most innovative and exciting players in the entrepreneurial game. Quirky dreamers and passionate doers meet their biggest cheerleader, T-Pain.
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TV Show: The Profit ( 2013 )
When Marcus Lemonis isn't running his multi-billion dollar company, Camping World, he goes on the hunt for struggling businesses that are desperate for cash and ripe for a deal. In the past 10 years, he's successfully turned around over 100 companies. Now he's bringing those skills to CNBC and doing something no one has ever done on TV before ... he's putting over $2 million of his own money on the line.In each episode of The Profit, Lemonis makes an offer that's impossible to refuse; his cash for a piece of the business and a percentage of the profits. And once inside these companies, he'll do almost anything to save the business and make himself a profit; even if it means firing the president, promoting the secretary or doing the work himself.
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TV Show: Dragons' Den ( 2006 )
Dragons' Den, an original CBC Production and audience favourite, returns to delight viewers for a new season.Aspiring entrepreneurs from across Canada vie for a coveted spot in the Den to pitch potentially profitable business investments to some of the nation's most successful tycoons. The Dragons use their own money and know-how and have the power to catapult companies into home-grown business success stories.Every episode theatre and venture capital collide. Stakes are high as good deals may be rewarded, but there's also the risk that bad ideas will get burned. Dragons' Den offers the audience a front-row view as the country's top business moguls wheel and deal with entrepreneurs who dare to brave the Den.
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TV Show: Dragons' Den ( 2009 )
Dragons' Den returns for an eighth series to RTÉ One in Spring 2017.In 7 years the Dragons have seen 415 pitches, invested in over 95 business with an investment figure of over €5million.
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TV Show: Shark Tank ( 2009 )
An exciting new reality show that, in these trying economic times, gives budding entrepreneurs a chance to make their dreams come true and become successful - and possibly wealthy - business people. But the entrepreneurs must first try to convince five tough, multi-millionaire tycoons to part with their own hard-earned cash and give them the funding they need to jumpstart their business ideas.Enter the Sharks of Shark Tank, who lifted themselves up by their bootstraps to make their own entrepreneurial dreams come true and turned their ideas into empires. The five Sharks of this ruthless panel are real estate mogul Barbara Corcoran, "infomercial" industry pioneer Kevin Harrington, technology innovator Robert Herjavec, fashion icon Daymond John and financial expert Kevin O'Leary.
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TV Show: Shark Tank ( 2015 )
Shark Tank, the critically-acclaimed, Emmy award-winning reality show that has helped re-invigorate entrepreneurship in dozens of countries around the world, premieres on TEN in 2015.Hosted by Studio 10 anchor Sarah Harris, Shark Tank features five of Australia's most successful business people, all hunting for the next big idea to turn into a profitable venture.Entrepreneurs Janine Allis (Boost Juice), Steve Baxter (internet pioneer), Andrew Banks (Talent2), John McGrath (McGrath Estate Agents) and Naomi Simson (RedBalloon) are Australia's "Sharks".These self-made multi-millionaires judge the business concepts and products pitched by ordinary Australians and then decide whether to invest their own money to help market and mentor each.In exchange for equity in their existing business, the aspiring entrepreneurs must convince a Shark their idea is original and the product worth pursuing … but it takes more than passion to hook a Shark.Who will have the best business bait, the right line and the smarts to win a likely tug-of-war? And will anyone be mauled in the Shark Tank?From the inspiring to the completely impractical, viewers will be captivated by the creations of everyday Australians, young and old, who dare to dream big in an effort to change their fortunes.Fifty thousand years ago, indigenous Australians blazed the trail for the inventors of today. Shark Tank celebrates the ingenuity and expertise of a brand new breed of innovators in this must-watch series.Shark Tank is produced for Network Ten by Shine Australia.
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TV Show: Restaurant: Impossible ( 2011 )
Turning around a failing restaurant is a daunting challenge under the best of circumstances. Attempting to do it in just two days with only $10,000 may be impossible. But Chef Robert Irvine is ready to take on the challenge. He'll channel MacGyver and use a lot of muscle to rescue these desperate places from complete collapse. Can one man, in two days, with just $10,000, turn the tide of a failing restaurant and pave the road to a successful future? Find out as Robert Irvine takes on Restaurant: Impossible.
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TV Show: StartUp ( 2016 )
The series explores what happens when a brilliant, yet controversial tech idea gets incubated on the wrong side of the tracks by three strangers who don't necessarily fit the mold of "tech entrepreneurs." Set amongst the unconstrained, yet opportunist streets of Miami, StartUp weaves a complex and exciting narrative, featuring the high-stakes struggle of what one will do to reach ultimate success. Forced to fund a tech company with dirty money from unsuspecting places while forming ties with a dangerous, Haitian gang, the fight to build a business pales in comparison to the fight to stay alive, especially when there's a vehement FBI agent who wields the power to make or break those he comes in contact with—and not always for the right reasons.
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TV Show: Undercover Billionaire ( 2019 )
A successful entrepreneur is dropped into a remote community with little resources and has 90 days to create a successful company.
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TV Show: Gold Rush ( 2010 )
Gold Rush follows six men who, in the face of an economic meltdown, risk everything - their families, their dignity, and in some cases, their lives - to strike it rich mining for gold in the wilds of Alaska. Inspired by his father Jack, Todd Hoffman of Sandy, Oregon, leads a group of greenhorn miners to forge a new frontier and save their families from dire straits. While leasing a gold claim in Alaska, Todd and his company of newbies face the grandeur of Alaska as well as its hardships, including an impending winter that will halt operations and the opportunity to strike gold. In an effort to keep the operation running, the team takes fate into their own hands with a make or break venture that will change their lives forever.
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TV Show: Growing Belushi ( 2020 )
Growing Belushi will follow Belushi, his family and farmers as tends to his 93 acre farm along the Rogue River in southern Oregon.Belushi started growing cannabis in 2015 with a 48-plant crop and now has a booming legal cannabis operation, selling brands including Belushi's Secret Stash and Captain Jack's Gulzar Afghanica, which became known in the 1970s as the "smell of SNL".
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Movie: The Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires ( 1996 )
Three part documentary that shows the insight look at the history of computers, from its rise in the 1970s to the beginning of the Dot-com boom of the late 1990s.
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TV Show: The Big Shot with Bethenny ( 2021 )
In The Big Shot with Bethenny, the next generation of business moguls will compete for a chance to be second-in-command to business tycoon and Skinnygirl founder Bethenny Frankel, and win a coveted position working on her executive team. In business and in life, Frankel never settles and only accepts excellence. Through a series of real-life tasks and challenges, each aspiring mogul will be tested to see how far they can push their creativity and determination to rise to the top.
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Movie: Dolemite Is My Name ( 2019 )
Eddie Murphy portrays real-life legend Rudy Ray Moore, a comedy and rap pioneer who proved naysayers wrong when his hilarious, obscene, kung-fu fighting alter ego, Dolemite, became a 1970s Blaxploitation phenomenon.
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TV Show: The Money Maker ( 2021 )
Entrepreneur Eric Collins offers his expertise, unrivalled business acumen and his own capital investment to small, struggling British businesses, to help turn their fortunes around.
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TV Show: Dragons' Den ( 2005 )
Series in which budding entrepreneurs get three minutes to pitch their business ideas to five multi-millionaires willing to invest their own cash.
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TV Show: Kings of Kush ( 2021 )
Anthony Sullivan is known as the OxiClean guy. To help his young daughter with developmental challenges he's now growing hemp to make CBD.
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TV Show: Restaurant Recovery ( 2021 )
Todd Graves helps struggling restaurateurs recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. With his deep industry knowledge, undeniable passion and some famous friends, Todd rolls up his sleeves to bring restaurants back to their former glory.
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TV Show: Restaurant Startup ( 2014 )
Restaurateur & TV personality Joe Bastianich and chef/restaurateur Tim Love vie against each other to invest their own money in food concepts they believe will make millions. Each week, two teams will compete for a shot at making their dreams come true.
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TV Show: Streets of Dreams with Marcus Lemonis ( 2020 )
Streets of Dreams with Marcus Lemonis highlighting the stories of the entrepreneurs and the unique business cultures that define America's most iconic streets. In each episode entrepreneur and host of CNBC's "The Profit" Lemonis travels across the country, pulling back the curtain on the most renowned and influential streets that fuel America's most vital business cultures. From diamond dealing on Manhattan's 47th Street, to country music on Nashville's Music Row, to the marijuana industry on Denver's Green Mile, Lemonis shares the stories of those determined to make it in America.
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TV Show: Billion Dollar Buyer ( 2016 )
Billion Dollar Buyer introduces promising companies across the country to one of America's most successful businessmen: billionaire hospitality mogul Tilman Fertitta, Chairman, CEO, and sole shareholder of Landry's, Inc. Fertitta oversees more than 500 properties and over 50 leading restaurant, hotel, and entertainment brands, ranging from high-end properties like Mastro's and Morton's The Steakhouse, to such mainstream destinations as Rainforest Café, Bubba Gump Shrimp Co., Saltgrass Steak House, and five Golden Nugget Casinos. With an annual supply spend of $2 billion, his buying power is second to none. Now, he's personally scouting the country for the most innovative new products America's entrepreneurs have to offer - everything from food and drink for his restaurants and casinos, to linens and spa products for his hotels. In each hour-long episode, Fertitta will spend time with two small businesses, sample their goods, get to know their owners, and assess their compatibility with Landry's, Inc. He'll point out flaws in their product and operations, share his expertise, and push for improvements. In the end, he'll decide whether to place a transformative purchase order with one of the companies, both, or neither. These businesses are about to come face-to-face with the most powerful customer they'll ever meet: the Billion Dollar Buyer.
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TV Show: The Deed: Chicago ( 2017 )
The Deed: Chicago explores a side of real estate that other property shows ignore—an unflinching look at how fortunes are really made in the unpredictable and cutthroat world of real estate flipping and development.
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Movie: Joy ( 2015 )
Joy Mangano has always been fascinated by creating things, This pursuit was always supported emotionally by her maternal grandmother, Mimi. Joy feels that lack of practical support has led to others making fortunes on ideas she came up with years ago but could not act upon manufacturing. Despite being broke, Joy is the person in her extended family to whom everyone has always turned.
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Movie: Wall Street ( 1987 )
A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing.
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Movie: The Devil Wears Prada ( 2006 )
A smart but sensible new graduate lands a job as an assistant to Miranda Priestly, the demanding editor-in-chief of a high fashion magazine.
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Movie: Erin Brockovich ( 2000 )
Erin Brockovich-Ellis is an unemployed single mother, desperate to find a job, but is having no luck. This losing streak even extends to a failed lawsuit against a doctor in a car accident she was in. With no alternative, she successfully browbeats her lawyer to give her a job in compensation for the loss. While no one takes her seriously, with her trashy clothes and earthy manners, that soon changes when she begins to investigate a suspicious real estate case involving the Pacific Gas & Electric Company. What she discovers is that the company is trying quietly to buy land that was contaminated by hexavalent chromium, a deadly toxic waste that the company is improperly and illegally dumping and, in turn, poisoning the residents in the area. As she digs deeper, Erin finds herself leading point in a series of events that would involve her law firm in one of the biggest class action lawsuits in American history against a multi-billion dollar corporation.
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Movie: Baby Boom ( 1987 )
The life of super-yuppie J.C. is thrown into turmoil when she inherits a baby from a distant relative.
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Movie: Big Night ( 1996 )
Primo and Secondo are two brothers who have emigrated from Italy to open an Italian restaurant in America. Primo is the irascible and gifted chef, brilliant in his culinary genius, but determined not to squander his talent on making the routine dishes that customers expect. Secondo is the smooth front-man, trying to keep the restaurant financially afloat, despite few patrons other than a poor artist who pays with his paintings. The owner of the nearby Pascal's restaurant, enormously successful (despite its mediocre fare), offers a solution, he will call his friend, a big-time jazz musician, to play a special benefit at their restaurant. Primo begins to prepare his masterpiece, a feast of a lifetime, for the brothers' big night.
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Movie: The Intern ( 2015 )
Seventy-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin.
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Movie: Moneyball ( 2011 )
Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to assemble a baseball team on a lean budget by employing computer-generated analysis to acquire new players.
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Movie: The Big Short ( 2015 )
In 2006-7 a group of investors bet against the US mortgage market. In their research they discover how flawed and corrupt the market is.
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Movie: Chef ( 2014 )
A head chef quits his restaurant job and buys a food truck in an effort to reclaim his creative promise, while piecing back together his estranged family.
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TV Show: The Apprentice: ONE Championship Edition ( 2021 )
The Apprentice: ONE Championship Edition invites 16 candidates handpicked from around the world to compete in a high-stakes game involving business and physical challenges. The winner will receive a US$250,000 job offer to work directly under ONE Chairman and CEO Chatri Sityodtong for a year as his protege in Singapore.
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TV Show: Crazy Rich Agents: Selling Dream Homes ( 2023 )
Crazy Rich Agents: Selling Dream Homes will show the behind-the-scenes hustle and business acumen it takes to secure the most expensive properties, take them to market and then bag that all important sale...
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TV Show: Kings of BBQ ( 2023 )
Kings of BBQ follows Emmy®-nominated actor and producer Anthony Anderson and renowned actor, producer, and comedian Cedric The Entertainer as they take their love of barbeque to the next level and work together to start their own barbeque empire, AC Barbeque.To perfect the products and learn all they can about the artform, the two friends head out on a culinary adventure to discover the best techniques, flavors, and traditions for mouthwatering barbeque across America.
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TV Show: The Apprentice ( 2005 )
The Apprentice sees fourteen candidates, competing against each other for a position at Lord Alan Sugar's company. Each week the candidates take part in a task set by Lord Sugar. Each team will have a Team Leader who managers that group for that task. The team that performs the best will win a reward and avoid the boardroom. The losing team will be summoned to the boardroom where their team leader will be forced to pick two people in their team who we join them in the boardroom and a chance to be fired. After twelve weeks Lord Sugar will be left with his Apprentice, who will work for him at a salary of £100,000. Lord Sugar is very busy so he has Nick and Karen, who act as his eyes and ears, to inform him of what's going on.
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TV Show: Sex Sells ( 2021 )
When we talk about sex, we mean business and business is booming. Join Weezy WTF as she explores sex-related businesses, while helping solve a celebrity guest's sexual issues - whether they know they have them or not.
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Movie: Becoming Warren Buffett ( 2017 )
The legendary investor started out as an ambitious, numbers-obsessed boy from Nebraska and ended up becoming one of the richest and most respected men in the world.
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Movie: Silicon Cowboys ( 2016 )
Three friends dream up the Compaq portable computer at a Texas diner in 1981, and soon find themselves battling mighty IBM for PC supremacy. Their improbable journey altered the future of computing and shaped the world we now know.
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Movie: Flamin' Hot ( 2023 )
This is the inspiring true story of Richard Montañez who, as a Frito Lay janitor, disrupted the food industry by channeling his Mexican heritage to turn Flamin' Hot Cheetos from a snack into an iconic global pop culture phenomenon.
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TV Show: Side Hustlers ( 2024 )
Women entrepreneurs develop their side hustles in the hopes of quitting their day jobs to pursue their dream careers full time.