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Posted August 15, 2013

A lot of the Self Made Men we’ve talked about at TSB started when they were young. This makes a certain amount of sense; young men have more energy and less life stuff—fami ...

The Self-Made Man: Ahmet Ertegun

Posted February 21, 2013

This week, Self Made Men returns to the music industry to profile Ahmet Ertegun, the Turkish-American entrepreneur who started Atlantic Records, the label that introduced America t ...

The Self-Made Man: Larry Flynt

Posted October 4, 2012

Since we profiled Hugh Hefner’s career as a self made man a couple of weeks ago, it would be downright ungallant of TSB to ignore his counterpart, Hustler founder Larry Flynt ...

The Self Made Man: James Brown

Posted December 8, 2011

This week’s Self Made Man Column, like the previous two, focuses on someone in the arts. But unlike John Waters, who grew up in stable upper-middle-class circumstances, or St ...