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.
I'd say from the beginning I was always optimistic, compared to the normal population, because everybody, including my close friends and wife, thought I couldn't do certain things that I thought I could do. Obviously, there is a disconnect there, I guess I would say, on optimism for the business th...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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