3. That’s not where he started
• He came to the united states in 1967 at age 14
• Graduated from high school in 1967
• Spent 1 year at Princeton
• Spent the next 12 years in India as a Monk
Yeah that’s right a
monk!
4. How did he get rich?
In 1990 he started a Plastics
company called Prime PVC.
How’s $20 million sound to
you?
Yeah that’s what he sold it for!
5. In 2004 he started Living Essentials
• Living essentials is the company that founded 5 hour energy.
• The big benefit?
A safe alternative to high caffeine drinks.
• How he did it?
Packaging in 2oz containers so that it could be
placed at checkout counters everywhere.
Self Distribution! Cutting out the middle man can make
a big deal.
Simple straight to the point commercials.
Alternative advertising such as NASCAR.
6. What is an Entrepreneur?
• As we study these great gifted leaders, I find it amazing to find people who understand that
they have received a gift in this life they can really share.
• We study about what makes them great. What has driven them?
• From studying Manoj Bhargava its clear to see he is driven.
• The first key to being a successful Entrepreneur is drive.
• Mr. Bhargava had already built a plastics company, so he knows how to execute an idea.
• He found 5 hour energy, and knew he had a good product.
• He got lucky and got it in one chain store 1200 locations.
• When it was successful there he states he knew he had a good product. No gimmicks!
• Trunk slammers! He utilized small entrepreneurial distributors.
• Common sense approaches from a guy with a lot of common sense.
7. Lets find out why he thinks he is
successful!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-
rAZ0quyv8s
8. Sense of urgency
• This was the most important thing I believe
Mr. Bhargava points out.
• It is what keeps successful people going. They
seem to have a never satisfied attitude.
• Even after spending years 12 studying,
meditating, and serving others he never lost
his drive to keep seeking more from life.
9. What makes him great to me!
• http://5hourenergy.com/helps/
• https://www.youtube.com/user/5hourENERG
YHelps
• Philanthropic Focus: Medical research,
poverty alleviation in India - See more at:
http://voices.mckinseyonsociety.com/manoj-bhargava-
billionaire-monk-charity/#
sthash.o5L24PvZ.dpuf
10. Rich guy giving back
Living Essentials is currently valued at more than $3
billion. He has already committed $1 billion to
Knowledge Medical Research Charitable Trust and
Rural India Supporting Trust, two personal
foundations that fund medical research in the
United States and more than 400 charities in India.
Much of Bhargava’s giving supports hospitals for the
poor and education for disadvantaged women in
rural areas. - See more at:
http://voices.mckinseyonsociety.com/manoj-bhargava-
billionaire-monk-charity/#
sthash.o5L24PvZ.dpuf
11. Giving back almost all of it!
90% to charity
My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him
money or giving 90+% to charity. Not much of a
choice.
Manoj Bhargava
- See more at:
http://glasspockets.org/philanthropy-in-focus/
eye-on-the-giving-pledge/
profiles/bhargava#sthash.rX3oFPMG.dpuf
