Business

Similar to several other successful CEOs, Michael Ballard also struggled in the initial days of his career. He brought 30 acres at South Dakota and started a biker’s saloon as per his taste. From the last ten years, his saloon is running successfully and he recently entered into most successful CEO’s list of 2015. He successfully modified, changed business strategies, organized biker’s events and turned this bikers den into a successful business venture on his own.

Michael Ballard’s role in Success of Full Throttle Saloon

Unlike several biker’s bars, where guys are grouped based on age, at this event age group is not a hurdle and a 50+ man can sit beside a twenty year old guy and enjoy the beer. This helps in meeting the persons with same taste and they can easily share their feelings. Initially, this model got huge criticism and several successful business magnets declared it a wrong business model. But Michael believed in himself and with time, this model gained response and proved successful.

Personal life:

Despite of having large age gap between the two, Michael Ballard (52) and Angie Carlson (35) married in 2012 and they are blessed with a cute baby, Emillie Grace Lynn. There are rumors that they had signed a prenuptial agreement but their bonding is strong and they believe in each other. Michal Ballard never dated anyone except Angie Carlson and she is happy to be wife of nice guy like Michael. Angie Carlson holds the record of having most photographed butt and Michael is proud of it. She is helping Michael by taking care of marketing division of Full Throttle Saloon. The total net worth of the couple is close to ten million dollars and each of them holds 50% of this amount.

Popularity:

Ten years back, nobody knows about Michael Ballard but he is very popular in the biker’s circles now because of the TV show “Full Throttle Saloon”. The seven days biker’s event organized at this saloon were aired on TruTV and five seasons were completed till now. The third season is the most successful one and in every season, Michael Ballard, Angie Ballard, Jesse James Dupree and others played their original roles in this reality show. On average, each episode was viewed by 1.5 million US viewers and this also helped in popularizing Michael Ballard.

Finally, Michael Ballard’s biography can be summed as the person who is living life as per her likes and creating an opportunity every year for bikers to enjoy to the fullest. After crossing 50 years also, he is very active and each and everything in the biker’s event is planned by him only.