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🗓️ 11 July 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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0:00.0 | When he was a kid growing up in Chiapas, Mexico, Pepe Vietaro was kind of an awe of his dad. |
0:06.1 | He could tell you a rock. |
0:08.7 | Pepe remembers even as early as eight years old, he would spend his school vacations sitting |
0:13.7 | in the back seat of his dad's car driving around the bumpy back roads of Chiapas. |
0:18.9 | Selling stuff. |
0:19.9 | And I was super shy. |
0:20.9 | I am the joke in my family. |
0:23.3 | They say that until I was 18 years old, I didn't talk, which is kind of true. |
0:28.3 | And my dad would just tell me, go ahead and sell this stuff. |
0:31.8 | And I was like, what do you mean? |
0:33.6 | Just go out. |
0:34.6 | What were you selling? |
0:36.6 | Well, my dad sold everything from tomatoes to motorcycles to milk, et cetera. |
0:45.1 | It's a very, very, very long list. |
0:47.4 | And on these drives, his normally silent dad would talk to him about his latest ventures. |
0:53.1 | He was the kind of person who could see a problem in the world and immediately think of |
0:56.7 | a way to turn it into a business. |
0:59.6 | One day we were traveling. |
1:01.1 | It was a long trip. |
1:02.4 | And he told him, look at all these potholes in the road. |
1:05.6 | And you know, there are many potholes in this country. |
1:08.5 | And he told me like, you know what? |
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