Ees Beeg

Adnuges-Onam did not pop up out of the ground overnight. Eleanor McKenzie’s money, every single cent in a recently estimated 8.9 billion dollars, did not fall out of the sky and onto her lap. Ellie Mac, as only her closest friends call her, is not living the dream, she IS the dream. Having worked her way through college, she landed her first job as a North Carolina health insurance agent. She soon grew tired of the drudgery and with the small amount she was able to save, put up a thrift shop that specialized in second-hand goods. She called it Adnuges-Onam (she won't say why to this day). Even she swears she doesn’t know how it happened, but in a mere 16 months, her small corner store had become a chain of 24 branches nationwide. The decade that followed saw nothing but growth. The 1600 dollars she first invested is not even close to a quarter-percent of her net worth today. Now that, ladies and gentlemen, is making it big.