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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

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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
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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?
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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.
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