
American Patrick Zalupsky opened a cottage building business at the most inopportune time - at the height of the 2008 crisis, when the market collapsed. Years later, it turned out that the moment was perfect: unlike large companies, his firm did not have a load of houses already built, which, due to the crisis, were difficult to sell. Dream Finders Homes caught the rising wave of demand for their own homes and brought its co-founder a fortune of $ 1.9 billion.