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Glenn Wesley Turner — [ 1 ] was a salesman best known for his Orlando, Florida based multi-level marketing cosmetic company Koscot Interplanetary, Inc. Turner and Koscot became entangled in numerous legal difficulties and Koscot went out of business in the s. Turner was a son of a sharecropper in a South Carolina tobacco farm [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and an unwed mother [ citation needed ].

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He was born with a cleft palate and a hare lip ; surgery to correct them left a scar for which he was bullied until he dropped out of school in the eighth grade. Turner was described as semiliterate. Air Force before successfully graduating from a school for those who had dropped out of high school. Turner started out selling sewing machines, and also worked briefly for Holiday Magic —a multi-level marketing company that sold home-care products and cosmetics, and through related companies sold self-improvement programs.

In the late s he became an entrepreneur, founding Glenn W. Turner Enterprises, Inc. By he owned an estimated 70 companies, [ 8 ] [ 1 ] including Dare to Be Great, a multi-level marketing company founded in which sold motivational and self-improvement courses. What reportedly made Turner "really rich", however, was Koscot Interplanetary Inc.

Koscot and Dare to be Great grew rapidly and Turner became famous.