Talk about entrepreneurial success. Shawn Nelson got started selling Lovesac’s out of his van in 1999 while still a student here at the University of Utah. Fast forward to today, when the brand just raise $56 million in its IPO.

“He was one of the early entrepreneurs in our program and really showed us, and a generation of students, what the possibilities were,” Troy D’Ambrosio, Executive Director of the Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute told the Deseret News. Read the full story here.