19 Facts About My Pillow

My Pillow, Inc is an American pillow-manufacturing company based in Chaska, Minnesota.

My Pillow was founded in 2009 by Mike Lindell, who invented and patented MyPillow, an open-cell, poly-foam pillow design.

MyMy Pillow has sold over 41 million pillows, due mostly to TV infomercials.

My Pillow started with five employees in 2004 and had 1,500 employees by 2017.

My Pillow made scientifically unsupported claims that its pillows could cure insomnia and ailments such as sleep apnea, fibromyalgia, and multiple sclerosis.

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Since it first aired, My Pillow has sold more than 30 million pillows and grown from 50 employees to over 1,500.

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.

In May 2018, Lindell and My Pillow again broke the Guinness World Record for the world's largest pillow fight, this time at the evangelistic PULSE Movement event held at the US Bank Stadium, after Lindell led over 45,000 people in prayer.

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 offered on QVC, at major retailers, trade shows, and from the My Pillow website.

My Pillow products are a patented design involving a mix of different-sized pieces of open-cell poly-foam.

On November 1,2016, My Pillow agreed to pay $1 million to settle a false advertising lawsuit brought in Alameda County Superior Court by Alameda County and eight other California counties.

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 2017, the Better Business Bureau announced it had revoked the accreditation for My Pillow and had lowered its rating from an A+ to an F based on numerous consumer complaints.

Portion of My Pillow proceeds goes to the Lindell Foundation, a charity that assists addicts, veterans, cancer patients, and other people in need.

In March 2015, My Pillow donated pillows to the Sandra J Schulze American Cancer Society Hope Lodge, which houses patients and their caregivers when traveling for treatment.

My Pillow donated 60,000 pillows in 2017 to Hurricane Harvey victims in Texas.

Dozens of advertisers subsequently vowed to no longer pay for advertising on The Ingraham Angle, but My Pillow continued to advertise on the show and increased their advertising buy on The Ingraham Angle by 625 percent during the first week in April 2018.

My Pillow purchased more advertising on the Fox News Tucker Carlson Tonight program than any other advertiser, as of June 2020, after many major companies had stopped supporting the show.