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Ex-Gang Member Reveals How He Avoided Prison and Built a $792 Million Business

Ex-Gang Member Reveals How He Avoided Prison and Built a $792 Million Business

Update: 2025-08-19
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From gang member facing four years in prison to self-made multimillionaire—but that’s not even the most unbelievable part of Ryan Blair’s story.




At 16, Ryan was staring down a prison sentence that would have destroyed his life. One judge’s decision changed everything. What happened next defies explanation.


Ryan built and sold companies worth hundreds of millions. Private jets, stadiums full of people, everything money could buy. Then he lost it all. Friends betrayed him, lawsuits piled up, and his mother lay dying.


But here’s where the story gets really interesting.


What Ryan experienced—and what he witnessed happen to his own son—will challenge everything you think you know about what’s actually possible when you hit rock bottom.




You need to hear this.




Ex-Gang Member Reveals How He Avoided Prison and Built a $792 Million Business

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Ex-Gang Member Reveals How He Avoided Prison and Built a $792 Million Business

Ex-Gang Member Reveals How He Avoided Prison and Built a $792 Million Business

Michael Franzese