Jacob Wright is a successful entrepreneur in many realms of the hospitality industry. A serial entrepreneur who started his first business at age 18, Wright has founded and led successful businesses in the action sports, website development, real estate development, restaurant and hotel industries. He is co-founder and president of Action Companies Group, which develops, manages and owns restaurant and hotel properties. From his base in Syracuse, N.Y., Wright leads a team of 200 associates who are now focused on building leadership in the limited-service hotel segment.
What I tell everybody is that I've never had financing easy. When you're going for $600,000 at twenty-three years old for a paintball field, the first thing the banker asks you is, What's paintball? The second thing they say is, You want 600 grand. What's your collateral? I have nothing. I don't ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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