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.
The way I personally started is I had a business for quite a while before I formalized it. It came to a point where it had to happen for all the reasons it has to happen. These days, once an idea comes to fruition and a hotel makes sense, we form up the entity, and it goes pretty quick. I would su...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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