<story><title>Teespring Says It&apos;s Minting New Millionaires Selling Its T-Shirts, Raises $35M</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2014/11/18/teespring-says-it-making-millionaires-raises-millions/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jedberg</author><text>If you want to build a huge business, building a platform where other people can make money using it is a great way to do that.  eBay, AirBnB, Uber&amp;#x2F;Lyft&amp;#x2F;etc, Teespring.  Even Google, with their adwords product (and reddit with it&amp;#x27;s self serve ads).&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s lots of great businesses where people pay you for a service, but if you can create one where people make money when you do, they are heavily invested in your success.</text></comment>
<story><title>Teespring Says It&apos;s Minting New Millionaires Selling Its T-Shirts, Raises $35M</title><url>http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2014/11/18/teespring-says-it-making-millionaires-raises-millions/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jhonovich</author><text>&amp;quot;At least ten, the company says, have become millionaires from the work.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Does this mean they sold a million dollars plus worth of shirts OR that, after all expenses, they netted a million? The phrase millionaire implies the latter but that is a far higher bar to cross.</text></comment>