Joy had an entrepreneurial mindset starting at a very young age. She was making her own toys out of paper and using her imagination to create stories with them. She also made the dog collar but never got a patent for it. As she grew up, she was constantly fixing things around the house, using her own knowledge because she could not afford to hire others to help her. One day she went to her daughter's room and used her crayons to sketch a new mop, the "Miracle Mop". After many trials, being failed by her father's girlfriend, failing on television, and dealing with terrible manufacturers, she went on television herself to display her product and succeeded. She also confronted her manufacturers about their lies and made a huge success out of her new mop invention. Coming from nothing and being in desperate need for money, she ended up having over 100 patents and became a very successful entrepreneur.
The story behind the success of Joy's invention is so interesting because it wasn't a straight and simple road to success. She had multiple trials, some that seemed like the end of the road and would have made many others give up. She constantly found a way to keep chasing her dreams even when they seemed impossible to reach because she knew it could change the world. She also had every person in her life telling her to give up at times and that it was over. The only person who ever thought highly of her was her grandmother who passed away in the midst of Joy achieving her dream. Joy knew what she could accomplish, and she knew that her product had value, so she never took quitting as an option. She knew that her mop would help many people and be of great value and convenience just as it was to her. Seeing her go from having nothing and living a toxic lifestyle to becoming a great entrepreneur was incredible.
Watching this movie, it is easy to believe that Joy went through all of this solely for her own success. Partially, it was for her to be able to provide for her and her family but there was also a deeper meaning to her product. She had terrible experiences in the past trying to clean things like glass with a mop, she was getting injured and making more of a mess than she was cleaning up. She knew that this was a problem for many others in the world as well. Joy explains the value that her product holds and how it will truly change her consumers lives forever. Her mop was the most absorbent mop ever made, which made it possible to clean floors quicker without ringing it multiple times. It could also ring itself which kept consumers from having to potentially hurt themselves while cleaning things such as glass or touching unsanitary things. The mop was washable which allowed the consumer to keep the same mop for multiple years, if not for a lifetime, and it would remain in great condition. The details she put into her invention were based on what would bring value to the consumers. She found wants and needs that had not been met yet and created a solution to them. Her focus was on how to make cleaning floors with this mop more efficient and convenient. Consumers did not buy her product because of the looks or fun of it but because they found value in what they could achieve by spending their money on this mop. They connected with how she explained the benefits of her mop compared to the mops that had previously been used by consumers. They believed that her product could fill a space that was missing in their homes and bring satisfaction. Joy's invention simply made life a little easier for many people and that is what made it valuable to so many people.
Not only did Joy's invention effect society but society also effected her along with entrepreneurship in general. She was directly impacted by making enough profit to support her family and live a comfortable lifestyle. She was also able to pay her employees which allowed them to also make an income to live a great lifestyle. Society showed great interest in Joy's invention and allowed her to make hundreds of thousands of mops to provide to multiple consumers to make cleaning easier. Consumers are who caused her business to survive. As she received profit from consumers she was also able to invent more products such as velvet hangers to provide even more value to consumers. Seeing how a simple invention can benefit and bring so much value to so many people encourages others to use their entrepreneurial mindset and bring even more value into this world. As society supports and sees value in the entrepreneurship world, more entrepreneurs are created, therefore more value is created. I see it as a cycle, as long as entrepreneurship is affecting society in positive way and society is affecting entrepreneurship in a positive way, great value is being discovered.
Society cannot function with entrepreneurs and their inventions. In this case entrepreneurship directly impacted consumers in society who bought the product. This product went directly from the entrepreneur to being a source of value in the homes of many people. There was no easy and sanitary was to clean floors, and it often resulted in scrapped up hands, so Joy found a gap that needed to be filled. As a result she invented the Miracle Mop that simply solved every single problem consumers had with their recent mops. When consumers saw that this mop was valuable to them they traded their money for the mop and allowed Joy to continue producing more mops, and the process continued. As people saw others in their lives have this product it impacted them to also want the product and it became very famous and successful. Entrepreneurs are here to bring value and satisfy society's wants and needs and that is exactly what Joy's product did.
