How much is Mike Lindell worth?
| Net Worth: | $50 Million |
|---|---|
| Profession: | Businessman |
| Date of Birth: | June 28, 1961 (age 61) |
| Country: | United States of America |
| Height: | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
About Mike Lindell
Mike Lindell, whose real full name is Michael James Lindell, is an American author, businessman, inventor, entrepreneur, film producer, philanthropist, and writer. He rose to mainstream recognition after founding the manufacturing company My Pillow, based in Chaska, Minnesota. Besides his multiple business ventures and political activities, the strong of President Donald Trump supporter has also created numerous films and projects such as Priceless, Trauma, Unplanned, and Church People.
Mike Lindell became famous after he founded the company My Pillow, Inc., which is one of the largest manufacturers in the United States. He was born in Mankato, Minnesota on June 28, 1961. His family occasionally moved between Chaska and Carver, Minnesota where he was raised. He’s the first of three children to James Sr. and Barbara Lindell and has two sisters – Cynthia and Robin. Mike attended various schools in Minnesota and eventually graduated from the Chaska High School.
After his graduation from high school, Mike went to the University of Minnesota. He dropped out of it before his graduation and launched several small businesses. Throughout the 1980s, he operated multiple businesses such as lunch wages, carpet cleaning, and bars and restaurants all around Minnesota. At the end of the ’90s, he allegedly became a crack-addict, according to CNBC. His addiction eventually led to the foreclosure of his house and divorce from his wife.
Starting in the early 2000s, Mike Lindell achieved sobriety through prayer and has been clean since 2009. Since then he has earned millions upon millions of dollars. All of his wealth has come by focusing on his career and making profitable business deals. Lindell’s story is incredibly inspiring because he never gave up, dealt with his demons and came out of it rich and successful.
The businessman became a millionaire thanks to his prosperous company, not to mention various business ventures that bring him additional income. In 2004, he invented the very first edition pillow, “My Pillow”. This was long before he even founded the company that made him rich.
After spending nearly five years on arrangements and investments, My Pillow, Inc. was founded in July 2009. Upon its establishment, Mike Lindell named his son, Darren, as the chief operating officer (COO) of the company. Throughout the next couple of years, the businessman spent an estimated $500,000 on the promotion of his company by creating various ads and commercials for local and national networks. He slowly but surely grew the business into one of the highest revenue companies in Minnesota.
By the early 2010s, My Pillow, Inc. was already very prosperous and contributed massuvely to Lindell’s wealth. We estimate Mike Lindell already had an estimated net worth of $50 million by 2011.
As of 2023, the manufacturing company has more than 1,500 employees. Over the past decade or so, of course like with any large enterprise, Mike Lindell’s company has been involved in various controversies. Irregardless, it has helped the inventor and entrepreneur become a very rich may who has net worth now estimated at $50 million.
The author and entrepreneur is successful because of his abilities to produce films, write books, and run a multi-million dollar company all at the same time. His political activities started just a few years ago when he met Donald Trump who at the time was a Republican presidential candidate. Since then, he has continuously appeared in various events and debates, with the most notable being Trump’s inauguration in January 2017. At the inauguration, Trump himself gave him a personal gift – an inauguration lapel pin. Recently, in March 2020, he made an appearance on Fox News and has been publicly considered to be running for governor of Minnesota in 2022.
Since he defeated his past addictions through prayer, Lindell has paid a lot of attention to his faith. In recent years, he founded his own faith-based foundation titled Lindell Foundation that donates goods to people. The first donation occurred after the Hurricane Harvey hit various states, especially Texas and Louisiana, in America. Besides the company and foundation, he also founded his own drug recovery network – Lindell Recovery Network. On the website Mike Lindell says that, “For decades I battled many addictions including crack cocaine. The Lindell Recovery Network is my revolutionary platform to help set addicts free.”
Since the late years of that decade, he has produced numerous films and documentaries – Priceless, Trauma, and Church People among them. He also became an actor that made his film debut in the 2019 biographical drama Unplanned and is he also had a part as a news anchor in the historical drama, Roe v. Wade.
Summing-Up
Mike Lindell has become incredibly rich over the last decade. He’s known primarily for founding the company My Pillow, Inc. in the summer of 2009. Ever since, he has worked on many projects as an entrepreneur, film producer, and philanthropist. Most recently, he became a writer and released his own autobiography entitled What Are The Odds? From Being A Crack Addict To Becoming A CEO, released in 2019.
While we do not know how much Lindell earns from his various other business ventures. According to Business Insider his core company, My Pillow, Inc., spends $5 million per month of advertising alone. MyPillow is a private company, so its financial information isn’t published, but he told The New York Times that its 2019 revenues topped $300 million. As of 2023, Mike Lindell’s net worth is estimated to be at least $50 million.
