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I have to tell you that the biggest hits that I had in my life, Henning Music and Henning Television and Henning Business, have been always as a result of significant rejections and repeated rejections.

So every time I have an idea that people tell me, no, don't do that. I say, oops, I'm on to something.

From NPR, it's how I built this, a show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built.

I'm Guy Ross, and on today's show, have a group of stand-ex-wearing teenage superheroes called the Power Rangers, helped turn Hyam Saban into one of the richest men on Earth.

If you asked Hyam Saban what he does, I used to describe myself as a cartoon shlipper.

Cartoon shlipper? Yeah, what I did for years is I went and knocked on doors and tried to sell cartoons all over the world. That's what a shlipper does.

And he shlept some of the biggest cartoons of the 80s and 90s, Inspector Gadget, X-Man, and of course his biggest hit, The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, which has just been revived as a blockbuster Hollywood feature.

Me and four kids found a spaceship right on the ground. I'm pretty sure I'm a superhero. Cool.

But we're getting ahead of ourselves here, because long before the Power Rangers, long before Hyam Saban was flying around the world on his private jet or hanging it as Beverly Hills Mansion with Bill Clinton, he was just a poor Jewish kid living on a dusty street in Alexandria, Egypt.

We lived in a very narrow street. We were a kind of lower class family. My father was a salesman in a toy store and my mother was a seamstress.

We had family friends who were Egyptian Muslims, Egyptian Christians, Greeks, Italians. It was a pretty cosmopolitan city, Alexandria.

But in 1956, shortly after the Suez War, many Egyptian Jews were accused of being traitors. So Hyam's family had to flee to Israel.

Hyam was 12 at the time, and no one in his family spoke any Hebrew. In fact, they didn't know anyone in Israel. And when they got there, they were housed in a tiny apartment and a rough part of Tel Aviv.

It was one room in an apartment that had three rooms and the other two rooms were occupied by another couple and by a hooker and her pimp.

And it was the five of us and my father basically had a job selling pencils and uracers door to door and some days he would sell three pencils and some days he would sell no pencils.

So it was to say the least a very hard life, yes.

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