- Millennial American director Ryan Coogler was drowning in $200,000 of student loans when he started making Creed—now, a decade later, his new movie Sinners is taking in $121 million at the box office. Oprah Winfrey, Forever 21 cofounder Do Won Chang, and Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky also found billion-dollar success out of their sticky situations.
Show up to any movie theater across America, and tickets to Sinners have already been swiped for the next two weeks. But just 10 years before the $121 million box office success broke the vampire horror genre, its director was drowning in student loans.
