Adam Lyons helped co-found The Zebra along with Joshua Dziabiak in 2012. The Zebra is an insurance comparison site that compares rates from over 200 different insurance carriers. He helped co-found this multi-billion dollar company while living in his friends basement collecting unemployment in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. After making a fortune while being the CEO of The Zebra, he left the company in 2018 to pursue a career in reality TV development. What I think is exemplary about this entrepreneur is that he went from rock bottom, dropping out of high school and living off of unemployment checks in a friends basement to a founder of a successful business and a billionaire in around 6 years time.
This is a great inspirational story about how one idea can change everything. Lyons found a niche and used it to build a business and get out of poverty. It is also incredibly impressive that he managed to do this in six years! It will be cool to see what Lyons does in the future!