Jack Link turned a bankrupt Wisconsin business into a $1.6bn meat snacks empire

Forty-year-old Jack Link bought a bankrupt Wisconsin business and built it into Link Snacks, a meat snacks company generating more than $1.6 billion in annual sales. The company has grown over four decades into one of the world's leading beef jerky producers. Link's story is widely cited as a classic example of turning bankruptcy into a billion-dollar opportunity.