Michael J. Lindell is the inventor and CEO of My Pillow, Inc. He is also the founder of the Lindell Foundation.
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Early life and career
Lindell was born in Mankato, Minnesota, and was raised in Chaska and Carver, Minnesota.
Prior to inventing MyPillow, Lindell launched and operated a number of small businesses including raising pigs, carpet cleaning, lunch wagons, and a few bars and restaurants in Carver County, MN.
Lindell had been plagued with many addictions, including cocaine, crack cocaine, and alcohol addictions, with his cocaine addiction starting in 1982, and his crack cocaine addiction starting in the 1990s. His addictions even stretched through the early years of the MyPillow business. Due to these addictions, he lost his 20-year marriage, his house, and nearly lost the MyPillow business. On January 16, 2009, Lindell, through prayer, quit all his addictions, and has been clean and sober ever since.
In March 2017, Lindell produced The Mike Lindell Story: An American Dream, a documentary about Lindell overcoming drug addiction and building a multimillion-dollar business. The documentary was shot in Minneapolis, Minnesota at the Pantages Theatre.
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Activism
Lindell created the Lindell Foundation, a faith-based foundation originally started to help addicts and MyPillow employees.The Lindell Foundation had a soft launch nationwide in August 2017 with a special project to help Hurricane Harvey victims. The foundation's focus was then broadened to help people with any issue, including addictions, work and spousal problems, cancer victims, veterans, and active duty military members.
Political positions
At the request of then-Republican candidate Donald Trump, Lindell met with Trump in August 2016 in the Trump Tower in New York City. They talked about the benefits of products being made in America, bringing jobs back to the USA, and helping the inner cities. From that time on, Lindell was an avid and very open supporter of Trump, even calling Trump, "the most amazing president this country has ever seen in history." On October 19, 2016, Lindell attended the final presidential debate in Las Vegas, Lindell spoke at a Trump campaign rally in Minneapolis on November 6, 2016 and attended the Official Donald Watch Party on November 8. He attended Trump's inauguration, receiving an inauguration lapel pin as a personal gift from Trump. On July 19, 2017, Lindell sat next to President Trump at the White House's Made in America Roundtable with 19 other industry leaders, Vice President Mike Pence, White House staff members, and 4 US Representatives. At the meeting and later in print, Lindell emphasized the economic importance of products being made in America.
References
External links
- michaeljlindell.com: The Mike Lindell Story
- Michael J. Lindell on IMDb
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