40-year-old’s restaurant group could bring in $200 million this year—he started with an ice cream shop, fresh out of college

This story is part of CNBC Make It’s Millennial Money series, which details how people around the world earn, spend and save their money. In 2007, Alex Smith had no designs on building a multi-state restaurant group that brings in nine figures annually. He just wanted to open an ice cream shop. Smith, now 40, was right out of college and eager to build something of his own after growing up in a family of ultra-successful entrepreneurs.