The 90-hour weeks part?
The fact that he was doing it for a fossil fuel company?
The fact that he’s worth fucking $9.5 billion?

Also, not in the headline, but-

The fact that he did it back in the 90s when you could actually successfully open a small business and make money from it as if it’s relevant today?

The business is a franchise called Raising Caine’s Chicken, which I’ve never had, but if you go by Yelp reviews, it’s either the best restaurant that has ever existed or pretty mediocre.

Also, Wikipedia says very little about his early life, but apparently his parents could afford to send him to a private catholic school, so he didn’t exactly grow up improverished.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Graves_(entrepreneur)

  • HubertManne
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    62 months ago

    I went to catholic school till 8th grade. Its pretty cheap for indocrination purposes till then. Catholic high school get pricey. I certainly would have stopped after 2 mil.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      42 months ago

      This is the school- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episcopal_School_of_Baton_Rouge

      Current tuition is $20,000 a year for high school- and he went in high school- and I doubt (accounting for inflation) that it was so much more affordable when he was a kid that poor kids could go.

      But who knows? Maybe he got a scholarship. Considering he got loans from friends according to the article, I doubt it.

      • sunzu2
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        72 months ago

        Considering he got loans from friends

        Ain’t that’s literally elite signalling lol

        Or do y’all got friends like and I am the only one proleing it here

        • Flying SquidOP
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          72 months ago

          Nope. I wouldn’t have a single friend I could ask for a business loan. Guess I need to pull myself up by my bootstraps.

          • sunzu2
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            32 months ago

            Well I did hear that there a solution to being being poor that works 100% of the time.

            Get rich 🤡

            Jokes aside… These people want to blend within society so they can leech. They don’t think us as the same people and they act like it when it really matters.

            They do appear to hellva solidarity among themselves though while we fight each other