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Re:A 24-Year-Old Built a $5B Hotel Startup in Five Years by jarsin on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @05:19PM (#18080376)
The funny, or disturbing, thing about this is the baby boomer generation actually believes this shit. Not sure if it's because they grew up trusting the media or what.

They don't see all the smoke and mirrors associated with "success" now days.

Re:A 24-Year-Old Built a $5B Hotel Startup in Five Years by lovich on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @05:32PM (#18080462)
"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 (#18081076)
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 (#18081688)
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 (#18081426)
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 (#18081250)
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 (#18080476)
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 (#18080780)
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 (#18081046)
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 (#18086171)
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 (#18081263)
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 (#18081545)
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 (#18081631)
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 (#18082087)
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 (#18081588)
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.