Koenigsegg: refused an engine, he built the fastest car

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Audi refused to sell this guy an engine, so he built his own and made the fastest car in the world. Meet Christian von Konigssegg. At 5, Christian is already taking machines apart when he sees a film about a bicycle repairman who builds a winning race car. He tells his dad that's going to be me. At 19, he starts selling frozen chickens in Estonia to pay for it. At 22, it's paying well, but he decides it's now or never, and quits to build a supercar with no experience. It looks impossible, but that's why he likes it. His savings are gone in under a year, so his dad comes to help for six weeks, and stays for years. He ends up putting in $2 million of his own savings. That money gets them their first car built around an Audi engine. But when Christian says he'll tune it for more power, Audi doesn't want a tiny startup changing its engine and cuts him off, so he decides he'll never depend on a car company again, and starts making every part himself until nobody can copy his cars. Then two weeks before a huge car show, his factory burns down, but he refuses to let it stop him. Days later, he's building cars in an old fighter jet hanger. Then in 2017, his car hits 277 miles an hour, the world's fastest, and today the kid who sold frozen chickens runs a $1 billion supercar company.

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