More than 20 years after becoming the original winner of The Apprentice, Bill is finally answering the questions everyone still asks. He reveals how he went from the 17th-choice alternate to the final boardroom, the wild cover story he told friends, what contestants were paid, why fired players were secretly sequestered and what it was like working for Donald Trump before the White House. Plus, the whirlwind 48 hours that turned a Chicago entrepreneur into a household name—and the lessons from the show he still carries today.