Very Short Interview No. 1 Week 3

Short Interview Week 3

The entrepreneur I’m interviewing is a friend of my father. He has own a wide range of businesses since the 1970’s. These include restaurants, nightclubs, two amusement parks, a waterpark, and an aquarium, along with a handful of smaller businesses. He still owns and operates many of these businesses today.

Questions

1. What does it mean to be an entrepreneur?

-“An entrepreneur is someone who can go out and make the world work for them. They are able to see opportunities and our able to make those opportunities something they are able to profit off of. They are risky and able to deal failure and keep going cause they believe in themselves and their ideas.”

2. What do you think I should learn in an entrepreneurship class?

-“You should try and learn a self confidence in yourself. You should also learn to look at the world in a different way, to no longer be afraid of it but ready to conquer it.”

3. What do you wish you had been taught in school before setting out on your own path as an entrepreneur?

-“I wish I was taught that you are going to fail, and that even though you failed it doesn’t mean what you did was wrong, that there are many factors at play. All you can do is try to use each experience with adapting for future situations and when you find success you the money you make to make more money for you.”

I guess looking back on the interview what surprised me the most was the amount of businesses that this man opened that eventually failed. Also it was eye opening that to become truly successful is the ability to take your success and parlay that into more success. Making your money make more money for you.