How Paul Oberschneider built a business worth over 200 million starting with 400 dollars

Entrepreneurs on Fire

John Lee Dumas

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🗓️ 22 April 2017

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Paul is a start-up entrepreneur who has built businesses worth over 200 million starting with $400. He founded the largest single-branded real estate company across five countries in Central Europe, developing a portfolio of hypermarkets in Eastern Europe, constructing over two million square feet of retail space.

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0:00.0	Who's ready to rock today Fire Nation?
0:05.0	JLD here and welcomed episode 1619 of EO Fire.
0:10.7	We're on Shao with today's most inspiring entrepreneur, Seven Days a Week.
0:15.8	We have a free 8-day goals course for you Fire Nation, free goals course dot CO, get
0:22.8	goal focused.
0:23.8	Now, Shao with today's featured guest, Paul Oberschneider.
0:27.2	Paul, are you prepared to ignite?
0:30.3	I'm smoking.
0:31.3	How ready for a job?
0:32.3	Paul is a startup entrepreneur who has built businesses worth over 200 million starting
0:38.0	with $400.
0:39.5	He founded the largest single brand real estate company across five countries in central
0:43.5	Europe, developing a portfolio of hypermarkets in Eastern Europe, constructing over 2 million
0:49.3	square feet of retail space.
0:51.1	Paul, take a minute, fill in some gaps from that intro and give us a little glimpse
0:55.8	of your personal life.
0:57.3	Well, how does an American end up in central East Europe in 1991, 1992 with $400 to his
1:04.8	name?
1:05.8	So, John, there's a backstory to all this.
1:09.0	You know, and it's not a pretty one.
1:12.0	I mean, I was a Wall Street, I started in Chicago as a guy working for Steve Fawcett,
1:17.6	who was an options inequities futures trader.
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