Richard Branson saw a gap in the bird market.
— Jon Erlichman (@JonErlichman) September 9, 2022
Always an entrepreneur… he started breeding parakeets when he was 11.
He sold them as pets to his friends. pic.twitter.com/6MGFxllM5q
Jeff Bezos worked at a McDonald’s in Miami when he was 16.
— Jon Erlichman (@JonErlichman) September 9, 2022
He recently reminisced about the gig.
Bezos particularly enjoyed the Saturday morning shift.
He liked cracking eggs into a big bowl. pic.twitter.com/qqXhkpxBdj
Elon Musk had a range of odd jobs.
— Jon Erlichman (@JonErlichman) September 9, 2022
Here he is in 1989, during a stint working on his cousin’s farm in Saskatchewan.
He then moved to Vancouver and worked as a lumberjack.
He also cleaned the boiler room at a lumber mill. pic.twitter.com/w8lTdhE9xI
Warren Buffett got started at age 6!
— Jon Erlichman (@JonErlichman) September 9, 2022
He sold packs of gum.
He bought them at his grandfather’s store…then sold them door to door. pic.twitter.com/U7nuPODWFz
Long before Reed Hastings started Netflix, he sold vacuum cleaners.
— Jon Erlichman (@JonErlichman) September 9, 2022
He’d go door to door in high school.
He even deferred college for a year to continue selling.
“I loved it, strange as that may sound,” he later said.
“You get to meet a lot of different people.” pic.twitter.com/4QgtO9itCS
Ray Dalio was a golf caddy when he was 12 years old.
— Jon Erlichman (@JonErlichman) September 9, 2022
He learned about investing listening to golfers who worked on Wall Street. pic.twitter.com/pUrwUn8nC2