The Gas Station Cook Who Started Over at 65 and Built KFC

In 1964, a 73-year-old man sold his company for $2 million; seven years later, that company was generating $700 million in annual revenue. He was Harland Sanders, the founder of KFC, who at age 65 was living on a $105 Social Security check and a recipe that no one wanted to buy. Discover how a gas station cook—a survivor of a shooting, a fire, and a highway accident that left him without customers—bet everything on fried chicken seasoned with 11 herbs and spices and built one of the world’s biggest brands. A true story of second chances, failures, and reinvention.