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This Entrepreneur Started by Selling Auto Parts From the Junkyard. Now, He Builds Million-Dollar Businesses. How Jason Stone embraced his entrepreneurial spirit.

By Gerard Adams

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In this episode of Leaders Create Leaders, Entrepreneur Network partner Gerard Adams sits down with Jason Stone, an entrepreneur and social influencer who has helped build Treadstone Performance, Gentlemens Mafia, Local Door Coupons and other businesses. Stone, who studied mechanical engineering in college, talks about how he started out by going to the repossession offices to buy cheap cars to fix up and resell or taking trips to the junkyard to strip unwanted automobiles of parts to sell online.

Since then, he's used that entrepreneurial spirit and his understanding of social media to grow his businesses and his personal brand -- his most well-known brand, the Millionaire Mentor, currently has 2.5 million followers on Instagram.

See more episodes of Leaders Create Leaders Season 1 and 2 on Gerard Adam's YouTube channel.

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Gerard Adams

Entrepreneur, angel investor, self-made millionaire at 24

Gerard Adams is The Millennial Mentor™, inspiring the generation to leverage their passions for success and create the lifestyle they dream of. A serial entrepreneur, angel investor, self-made millionaire by the age of 24 and millennial himself, he is most popularly known as the co-founder of Elite Daily. To date, he has built, backed or invested in nine businesses across multiple industries that have all delivered over seven-figure profits. Gerard has recently developed a video series, Leaders Create Leaders, to offer a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur. Learn more at GerardAdams.com

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