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Stories inside include:

  • What Jim Host (Host Communications) did after going from having $1,800,000 to being in debt $560,000 (inflation adjusted) in 1967 when he was 28 years old. - page 50
  • The investment Bill Gatton (Bill Gatton Motors) made when he was 8 years old - page 192
  • What nine Harvard business professors told John Y. Brown Jr when he asked for advice about running KFC (hint: the conversation was short) - page 36

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Class of 2023

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Class of 2021

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Class of 2019

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Class of 2018

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Class of 2017

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Class of 2016

The Kentucky Entrepreneur Hall of Fame to Induct Four Accomplished Entrepreneurs

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Class of 2015

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Class of 2014

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