The third generation usually destroys a family business, but Jim Perdue ended up growing his century-old poultry company tenfold by focusing on all-natural premium meats—beyond chicken—and not following the flock. https://t.co/6Rj2CIPFQH 📸: Aaron Kotowski for Forbes https://t.co/bwyc5Ton0n

The third generation usually destroys a family business, but Jim Perdue ended up growing his century-old poultry company tenfold by focusing on all-natural premium meats—beyond chicken—and not following the flock. https://t.co/6Rj2CIPFQH 📸: Aaron Kotowski for Forbes https://t.co/bwyc5Ton0n

Perdue heir Jim Perdue once walked away from the family business—then came back and grew it into a multibillion-dollar company. After leaving in his twenties, Perdue returned under an ultimatum from his father and went on to transform Perdue Farms into America’s fourth-largest chicken producer. Tod