It was never about the money, according to Baekgaard. Today, the company named in honor of Baekgaard’s mother has roughly 3,000 employees and annual sales of nearly $500,000 million. Two years later, their sales topped $1 million. In the first year, Baekgaard and Miller sold $10,000 worth of product.
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