3 Million Americans Got Rich From Boring Businesses. Here's How, with Owen Zidar & Eric Zwick

Podcast: Afford Anything | Get Smarter With Money · Paula Pant, Personal Finance Expert

Opublikowano: 2026-10-23

#761: Roughly 3 million Americans who own private businesses — car dealerships, beer distributors, dental practices — are collectively worth more than ten times the entire Forbes 400. Most of them didn't start rich, and you've probably never heard of a single one. Economists Owen Zidar (Princeton) and Eric Zwick (University of Chicago Booth School of Business) spent more than a decade linking anonymized tax records to the people who own America's private businesses. They share what they found in their new book, The Everywhere Millionaire. In this episode, we discuss: Why owning all...