He lost his wife, lived on the street, and went to jail. A few years later, Rick Hopper was on a path that would take him to ABC’s Shark Tank and became a millionaire.

Rick Hopper is a serial entrepreneur, inventor, and author based in DFW - best known as the creator of ReadeREST, the magnetic eyeglass holder that became Lori Greiner's very first deal on Shark Tank. His new book, The Bridge from Idea to Money, distills everything he's learned going from zero to millions - twice.

In this episode, Rick walks us through his drug addiction, launching his first company where he turned strips of plastic into $5 million a year in sales, and the ReadeREST origin story - including how he wore a bent paperclip for a year before anyone told him it was a real product.

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