This self-made millionaire invented a 'gun' that shoots salt at flies. (via CNBCMakeIt)
If, however, flies are your nemesis, if they make your life miserable when you're trying to picnic at the park, barbecue in the backyard, sleep at night but can't because some stupid fly got in the house and is buzzing around..."I was a weird kid, I didn't like flies," says the 57-year-old from Los Angeles. "I used to put them in my Hot Wheels cars and send them down the track. They land on poo, and then they land on your food.
But he always had this idea to make a gun to kill flies. "It's fun, and it's ridiculous," Maggiore says. "I couldn't let it go." Maggiore maxed out his credit cards and went to China to spend two months working with a prototype toy maker. He would eventually spend $70,000 of profits from his wallpaper hanging business, along with about $30,000 from an angel investor he met through a friend of the family. Finally, the prototype was completed. "I'm just sitting in the hotel looking at this thing that I've done," he recalls, laughing. "It's ready for the world, but I have nowhere to sell it.
Finally, the Bug-A-Salt, a dream he'd had since he was a teenager, was a real thing. Over the last seven years, sales have grown as Maggiore continued to improve the product Maggiore says most customers buy the weapon as a gimmick then discover it works, and then they become addicted to it. "They always say, 'We don't have any flies to shoot, so now we leave the doors and windows open.
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