This Billionaire Never Pays at Restaurants?!

Name: This Billionaire Never Pays at Restaurants?!
Uploaded: 2022-12-04T02:00:13+00:00
Duration: 47 s
Channel: Sam Parr
Description: In this anecdotal YouTube monologue, the speaker recounts meeting an extraordinary, high‑energy billionaire who has reinvented himself across multiple…

4 Dec 2022 · 1 min

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In this anecdotal YouTube monologue, the speaker recounts meeting an extraordinary, high‑energy billionaire who has reinvented himself across multiple industries—starting with real‑estate development in San Diego, moving into Hollywood as a showrunner, launching tech ventures during the internet boom, and marrying the founder of 1‑800‑Flowers. The billionaire’s signature deal‑making ritual takes place at a high‑end restaurant where a special table is covered with a paper tablecloth and crayons, allowing him to sketch diagrams and close multibillion‑dollar deals on the spot. Remarkably, he never pays for the meals; food is continuously brought out and he simply walks away, likened to an Uber. The speaker is inspired by this figure’s relentless energy and wishes to emulate his lifestyle of constant deal‑making and career reinvention, even into his 60s‑70s.

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I meet this guy and it turns out this guy had this crazy career. He built like skyscraper in San Diego because he's like, oh, real estate's where I'm going to make my money. He got into Hollywood. He was a showrunner a bit. So he thought that's how he would make it. Then he started tech companies with the internet boom, and then he married the woman who started 1-800-Flowers. He bumped into a guy in an elevator, invested in his company, and it ended up becoming like that, like this big multibillion-dollar thing. Takes me to this restaurant to go eat. They have a special table for him and the tablecloth is all made out of paper. It's a high-end restaurant, but his was made out of paper like a kid's table. And they had crayons and he would just draw diagrams and like cut deals at this table. And he never had to order. They would just bring out loads loads of food, and then he'd walk away at the end like an Uber. He never had to pay. And I was like, I don't know who this guy is, but like, that's what I want to be in life. I want to be this ball of energy who's just cutting deals, drawing on tables, and like, you know, has had 5 different arcs of his career in these different spaces. And he's still— he's like 65, 70 years old. He still seems to have all the energy in the world.