It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I worked in IT for about three years for a tiny firm with ten other people.
I wanted to build businesses from the time I was little.
When I came into the business, things changed a lot, and my life was in a real state of flux.
I was very lucky. I started my own commercial company.
I've been preparing to run a big company all my life.
From my point of view, what I really like, what I think is really terrific about my work, is that the company's had the opportunity to train literally thousands and thousands of brand new franchisees to successfully run their very first business.
I could imagine, some number of years from now, starting my own company. But not yet. Not for a while.
As a young analyst just out of Stanford business school in the 1960s, I got to really understand what growth was about. Back then, you had to ask a customer to pay some money. That was the most important thing in getting a company off the ground.
When business became big business - conglomerates employing hundreds and even thousands of people - companies divided themselves into still smaller units.
The business has changed greatly since my day.
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