Small Fortunes tells the story of two American men intent on making something of their lives, and some money as well. Two guys named Jim and Pete. Jim Teal grew up in Ohio and in high school started working at Kentucky Fried Chicken part-time.... Three years later, Jim was the supervisor of nine franchises when a fellow worker asked him to join a start-up of a new restaurant he'd named after his daughter: Wendy's. Five years later, Jim walked away with his first million, continued his good luck with some male stripper bars, then lost his shirt when the herpes scare derailed his hot-tub rental business. But Jim's got a new idea for success: comic-strip-character T-shirts … Pete Binion grew up on a ranch. He served in a tank crew in Vietnam and rode bulls on the rodeo circuit. Cows were what he knew so he got a master's degree in animal science, found out about a new technique of embryo transfer and a new breed of cattle known as Senepol that Pete thinks can improve the national economy and be a boon to meat-eaters everywhere. It's a hunch that he's bet the ranch on..