The Show

Five Men. $25,000 Each. One Race to a Billion.

The audience does not watch from the couch. The audience is the board.

Monday, 6:15 a.m. Five men in five Great Lakes cities get up and go to work. One repairs factory machines. One services elevators. One manages construction projects. One keeps warehouses running. One runs the systems that keep an industrial services company organized. Each has $25,000 to his name. Each decides, this week, to risk it.

They don't know one another. But every road they take bends toward the same technicians, the same customers, the same money and finally the same 640 acres of a dead steelworks on Lake Erie called Ironhaven.