Lonely Planet: Maureen & Tony Wheeler
How I Built This with Guy Raz
English - May 08, 2017 04:01 - 40 minutes - 36.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 29.3K ratingsBusiness business entrepreneurship entrepreneur health interview marketing leadership finance startups productivity Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In 1972, Maureen and Tony Wheeler bought a beat-up car and drove from London "as far east as we could go." They wound up in Australia, by way of Afghanistan, India and Thailand. Their notes on how to travel on a shoestring became a book, which grew into Lonely Planet — the largest travel guide publisher in the world. PLUS in our postscript "How You Built That," how 15-year-old Michael Mendicino, with help from his mom, took a teenage trend and turned it into a board game called Bottle Flip.
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