CaptionMost of us put a lot of time and energy into distancing ourselves from excrement. We don’t want to talk about it, see it or (ugh) touch it. We buy air fresheners, diapers, baby wipes, toilet paper, pooper scoopers, dog poop bags, bidets, cleaning supplies and other products to keep our world as feces-free as possible. We humans hate poop. That is, most of us do. But we discovered a very dirty little secret: If you dig deep enough, there’s a lot of money in the brown stuff. Here are twenty people who have made serious dollars off of dung.Getty ImagesBobby Edwards, the creator and CEO of the bathroom aid known as the Squatty Potty, created his multimillion dollar product because his mother was constipated. Like every good son Edwards wanted his mom to poop comfortably, so together the Edwards family created a toilet-hugging stool on which a defecator rests his or her feet to encourage a more natural position for doing one’s business. The product was featured on Shark Tank and is one of the most successful products in the show’s history.
