Christopher Paul Gardner is a motivational speaker and businessman from the United States. Gardner suffered from homelessness in the early 1980s while raising a toddler kid. He became a stockbroker and, in 1987, started Gardner Rich & Co, his brokerage firm. Gardner sold his minority ownership in the company and released a memoir in 2006. The Pursuit of Happyness, a film starring Will Smith, was based on the novel. ... Read more