Re:A 24-Year-Old Built a $5B Hotel Startup in Five Years
by lovich on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @05:32PM
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"To learn the hotel business from the ground up, he spent a year cleaning rooms at one of them"
That quote for instance, is a nice way of spinning the fact that he had to get a job cleaning hotel rooms
Re:A 24-Year-Old Built a $5B Hotel Startup in Five Years
by point78 on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @07:20PM
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He could have probably chosen dozens of low wage jobs though
Re:A 24-Year-Old Built a $5B Hotel Startup in Five Years
by lovich on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @10:16PM
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What are the odds between the two options. One, he took a low wage job at a young age because that's what everyone but the rich have to do, and then spun it as a story about how he always had a vision and it makes a good story. Two is that he actually made a plan to be running an international hotel company and made calculated choices to do so, without any of the benefit of experience to inform him of what those steps would be?
Re:A 24-Year-Old Built a $5B Hotel Startup in Five Years
by sh87 on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @08:50PM
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He did choose one - cleaning rooms.
Re:A 24-Year-Old Built a $5B Hotel Startup in Five Years
by booleandilemma on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @07:56PM
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Can confirm. I feel like every time a 10 year old develops a best selling ios app my parents tell me and then ask why I’m not a millionaire yet.
Re:A 24-Year-Old Built a $5B Hotel Startup in Five Years
by chipotle_coyote on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @05:35PM
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Broad sweeping generalizations about how stupid baby boomers are tend, by and large, to be just as true as broad sweeping generalizations about how stupid millennials are.
Re:A 24-Year-Old Built a $5B Hotel Startup in Five Years
by njarboe on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @06:27PM
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I guess I can understand why gen Xers are trying to build rockets to get off of this rock. No place for them in the system.
Re:A 24-Year-Old Built a $5B Hotel Startup in Five Years
by briandear on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @07:12PM
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People were building rockets and actually going to the moon long before Gen X.
Re:A 24-Year-Old Built a $5B Hotel Startup in Five Years
by njarboe on Thursday September 27, 2018 @12:39PM
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And then they stopped going to the moon for 45 years and counting.
Re:A 24-Year-Old Built a $5B Hotel Startup in Five Years
by wolco on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @08:01PM
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No one talks about us but we exist: generation y.
Re:A 24-Year-Old Built a $5B Hotel Startup in Five Years
by jcater on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @09:28PM
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I thought Gen Y was renamed to Millennials as time went on. So they're one and the same. Wikipedia seems to agree: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials
Re:A 24-Year-Old Built a $5B Hotel Startup in Five Years
by fapjacks on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @09:52PM
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Shhh! The last thing we need is some geezer or some kid shitposting on Twitter about how we ruined some damned thing with all of our amazeballs drug-fueled raves and dial-up BBSes.
Re:A 24-Year-Old Built a $5B Hotel Startup in Five Years
by hndamien on Thursday September 27, 2018 @12:16AM
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They talked about you during the Bitcoin boom.
Re:A 24-Year-Old Built a $5B Hotel Startup in Five Years
by a1369209993 on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @09:41PM
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Yes, they do. They also tend to be just as true as broad sweeping generalizations about how corrupt politicians are, and how wet water is.
They don't see all the smoke and mirrors associated with "success" now days.