Without any prior business experience—or any real baking experience—20-year-old Debbi Fields used the money she earned as a ball girl at Oakland Athletics games to buy ingredients to bake cookies that she sold from her home starting in 1977. From those humble beginnings grew one of the world’s most successful dessert companies in Mrs. Fields Cookies. She soon sold franchise rights to individual operators all over the country, and in 1990 she sold the company to an
...moreWithout any prior business experience—or any real baking experience—20-year-old Debbi Fields used the money she earned as a ball girl at Oakland Athletics games to buy ingredients to bake cookies that she sold from her home starting in 1977. From those humble beginnings grew one of the world’s most successful dessert companies in Mrs. Fields Cookies. She soon sold franchise rights to individual operators all over the country, and in 1990 she sold the company to an investment firm for millions.
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