Milton Hershey, founder of Hershey: https://www.hersheys.com/en_us/our-story.html https://www.hersheys.com/en_us/our-story.html Our founder, Milton Hershey be

Milton Hershey, founder of Hershey: https://www.hersheys.com/en_us/our-story.html https://www.hersheys.com/en_us/our-story.html Our founder, Milton Hershey believed in making happiness accessible to all. That belief, along with tremendous passion, perseverance, and vision, helped him grow the Hershey Company, so that millions could enjoy his delicious chocolates. My recollection is that he tried multiple sweets related businesses before he got something that worked. According to Wikipedia: Early years[edit] After an apprenticeship to a confectioner in 1873, Milton S. Hershey founded a candy shop in Philadelphia. This candy shop was only open for six years, after which Hershey apprenticed with another confectioner in Denver, where he learned to make caramel.[7] After another failed business attempt in New York, Hershey returned to Pennsylvania, where in 1886 he founded the Lancaster Caramel Company. The use of fresh milk in caramels proved successful,[8] and in 1900, after seeing chocolate-making machines for the first time at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Hershey sold his caramel company for $1,000,000[8] (equal to $28,788,000 today), and began to concentrate on chocolate manufacturing, stating to people who questioned him, "Caramels are just a fad, but chocolate is a permanent thing." In 1896, Milton built a milk-processing plant so he could create and refine a recipe for milk chocolate candies. In 1899, he developed the Hershey process which is less sensitive to milk quality than traditional methods, and in 1900, he began manufacturing Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bars, also called Hershey's Bars or Hershey Bars. I also found JR Simplot's biography inspiring. He quit school at age 14 and hunted wild horses to feed piglets that he got from farmers who were going to kill them rather than feed them because of a glut on the market. He then sold dehydrated onions. He later went into making French fries and became a supplier for McDonald's. https://portal.clubrunner.ca/994/Stories/making-of-a-french-fry-empire https://portal.clubrunner.ca/994/Stories/making-of-a-french-... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._Simplot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._Simplot You might also enjoy reading up on the founder of KFC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Sanders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Sanders