Strange Success with Jane Wells

Adventure Combat Ops

02 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 zombi...

Vitality Air

26 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 wate...

CitiKitty

19 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

PuckerButt Pepper Co.

12 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Ed Currie was so miserable he wanted to die. Then an angel appeared and told him to live. Now he runs a hellish enterprise, growing the hottest pepper...

Cuddle Up To Me

05 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A divorcee in Portland just wanted a hug, but all the men she met assumed that meant sex. It didn’t, and the only way she figured anyone would take ...

Apollo Peak Cat Wines

26 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

A guy in Colorado working in the pet food industry saw a huge gap, and filled it, with wine. Except it’s not really wine. He also won on “Shark Ta...

Drop Stop

19 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

How two best friends living in a small apartment in LA with dreams of making it big in Hollywood instead came up with a $33 million dollar product to ...

Neuticles

12 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

How a dog lover near Kansas City, MO, came up with a product for neutered dogs to let them keep their “God given look.” Neuticles are testicular i...

Season 2 Preview

29 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

CNBC’s Jane Wells is back for more rags-to-riches stories with a twist. “Strange Success” is about people who come up with a crazy idea to solv...

The World's Most Expensive Sex Doll

28 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Matt McMullen accidentally fell into the sex doll business, but he has never regretted it. He makes the Real Doll, the most popular, most expensive, m...

Exploding Kittens

21 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Elan Lee failed out of several colleges before becoming a legendary video game developer. Matthew Inman started drawing cartoons online and now has ov...

The Queen of Poo

14 Feb 2018

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Suzy Batiz had failed twice in the world of business, but she would not be deterred. A decade ago, Batiz developed an oil-based spray to conquer the o...

Hangover Heaven

07 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Hangover Heaven - What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas, but when you party too hard, a hangover can ruin a weekend of fun. It can mean canceled busin...

Holy Guacamole!

31 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

GUAC-LOCK: Two best friends were living the good life in Scarsdale, New York. Not good enough! Seeking a challenge, they took on America’s great par...

My Pillow

24 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

You’ve probably heard him on TV; “Hello, I’m Mike Lindell and I’ve invented the world’s most comfortable pillow...” He took his obsession...

Bunkers

17 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Hawaii panics after a false alarm warning of an incoming ballistic missile. A few days later, the same thing happens in Japan. The alerts were false, ...

Squatty Potty

10 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The Squatty Potty was created by an entrepreneurial family in Utah because mom suffered from, well, constipation. Sales in 2017 were close to $33 mill...

Strange Success with Jane Wells

27 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

CNBC’s Jane Wells finds rags-to-riches stories with a twist. “Strange Success” is about people who come up with a crazy idea to solve a problem...