Michael James Lindell, also known as the My Pillow Guy, is an American businessman and entrepreneur who is the founder and CEO of My Pillow, Inc., a pillow, bedding and slipper manufacturing company. Lindell is the founder of the Lindell Foundation, a non-profit that helps addicts through providing treatments and other services. Lindell is a prominent supporter of, and advisor to, former U.S. President Donald Trump.

Lindell attended the University of Minnesota after high school but dropped out a few months into his studies. After leaving the university, Lindell focused his efforts into entrepreneurial business. In the 1980s, Lindell launched and operated a number of small businesses, including carpet cleaning, lunch wagons, and a few bars and restaurants in Carver County, Minnesota. Lindell invented the My Pillow pillow in 2004 and grew the business into a major Minnesota manufacturing company. On April 19, 2021, Lindell launched an alt-tech social media platform called Frank.

Lindell's charity work focuses on addiction recovery after battling with drugs and gambling himself beginning in his 20s. Lindell stated that he achieved sobriety through prayer in 2009. In 2019, the Lindell Recovery Network was released nationwide to help addicts connect with other people and organizations help the recovery process. The Network allows the user to in-put their age and addiction to help find a mentor around their age that has gone through drug addiction and the recovery process. The Lindell Recovery Network has connected itself with over 3,500 treatment centers that are faith-based. Lindell commented that instead of focusing on telling someone they are an addict, he wants to focus on the healing process with peers that know about addiction.

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