Chip and Joanna Gaines built Magnolia with a mix of stubborn risk, steady compounding, and a lot of small, unglamorous decisions in Waco, Texas. Their story starts with a $5,000 family loan and ends, for now, with 79 episodes of Fixer Upper, a cable network, a tourist district built around old grain silos, and an estimated combined net worth in the tens of millions. Underneath the paint colors and cupcakes sit hard numbers on budgets, episode counts, and real estate bets that any founder can study.​ TL;DR for Chip and Joana Magnolia story Origins: ranch work, tire shop, and an unlikely match Chip Gaines was born in Albuquerque, then raised…