Bob Johnson and the Black Guide to Multimillion-Dollar Success

Robert L. Johnson is a super-successful business tycoon who will always be known as a history-making, barrier-busting pioneer who has so many “firsts” that it’s hard to enumerate them all. He undoubtedly attained his greatest fame as the founder of a television network aimed at African American viewers, Black Entertainment Television (BET), in 1980 and went on to become the world’s first ever black billionaire.

But there is much more to this multitalented money-making machine. Let’s take a look at the journey of the man known to most as Bob Johnson.