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Editor’s Insight: One man’s low-tech path to overnight billionaire status

Unilever is going back to the future with a mail-order business. With special feature audio.

Mon, 01 Aug 2016

Becoming a billionaire overnight is not unknown in the world of high-tech. So how did one man do it in a business based on an unpopular and unglamorous activity: wet shaving? 

Shaving is a daily chore for most men and many women. It is something most people would like to avoid.

Four years ago,

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