“My parents used to ask me, what do I want to be when I grow up? And I said, I want to be a millionaire when I'm 30. And they said, no, that's not a job. What do you want to be? I don't know. But I want to get to be a millionaire when I'm 30. And in 1989, I'm 15 years old and Liar's Poker comes out. And this is a very famous book. It tells the story of eighties Wall Street through the lens of Salomon Brothers’ bond trading desk. And, you know, this is like the first introduction I have to what Wall Street is. Reading this book, I'm like, that's where the game is. It's like the Willie Sutton line about why do you rob banks? It’s because that's where the money is. Well, why do you want to go work for a bank? Because that's where the money is. In 1995, I didn't get the Wall Street job. And so the closest thing I got was a job at Enron, which was I was developing this merchant bank around the natural gas industry, which was in a very interesting time in the mid-nineties. And I said, Oh, that's the closest thing I got. I go do that for a couple of years in Houston and go back to business school and figure out what I want to do.”
