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<br>My Pillow, Inc. (stylized as MyPillow) is an American pillow-manufacturing company based in Chaska, Minnesota. The company was founded in 2009 by Mike Lindell, who invented and patented My Pillow, an open-cell, poly-foam pillow design. My Pillow has sold over 41 million pillows, due mostly to TV infomercials. My Pillow has sponsored conservative political activities. It has been fined and has settled multiple lawsuits related to misleading advertising, including a 2017 settlement in a class action lawsuit against their buy one, get one free promotions. The company made scientifically unsupported claims that its pillows could cure insomnia and ailments such as sleep apnea, fibromyalgia, and multiple sclerosis. In 2022, it was sued along with Lindell by election technology company Smartmatic for allegedly making false claims about Smartmatic voting machines in order to promote its products. My Pillow was founded by Mike Lindell of Minnesota. To help fund the development of the pillow, Lindell sold four bars he owned in Carver County, Minnesota, and mortgaged his house.<br><br><br><br>At first, Lindell hand-sewed the pillows himself and handled all the sales and distribution with help from his family. The first My Pillow was sold in 2005 at a kiosk in Eden Prairie Center, a mall in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. For the next six years, the company struggled while selling at mall kiosks, state fairs, and trade shows. The 30-minute show was shot in one day in front of a live studio audience and cost $500,000 to produce and launch. As of September 2013, the infomercial was running an average of 200 times per day on local and national networks. In July 2015, Lindell and My Pillow sponsored an attempt to set a new Guinness World Record for the world's largest pillow fight at a St. Paul Saints baseball game. 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The company's headquarters,  [http://git.9e-chain.com/keiradesalis20/derilapillowget-derila-official4925/-/issues/16 back sleeper approved] call center and customer service center are located in Chaska, Minnesota. 70,000 square-foot manufacturing plant in Shakopee, producing approximately 25,000 pillows per day. Some products are marketed as "proudly American made". My Pillow opened its first retail store in Burnsville, Minnesota, in 2012 and, as of 2017, had grown to 17 locations in Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska. My Pillow products are also offered on QVC, at major retailers, trade shows, and from the My Pillow website.<br> <br><br><br>My Pillow products are a patented design involving a mix of different-sized pieces of open-cell poly-foam. Lindell says he tested 94 different foams before deciding on the right one. 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In November 2017, the lawsuit, which challenged the appropriateness of the marketing, packaging, and sale of My Pillow products, including health claims about the product, buy one get one promotions, and the use of third party endorsements and logos, was settled. In January 2021, Dominion Voting Systems threatened to sue Lindell over his false claims of widespread fraud involving their machines.<br>