After two years in Brooklyn, his money struggles forced him to drop out of school and move back to his hometown, Houston, where he lived on his mom s couch.
He was halfway through his degree and hoped to pick up where he left off at a more affordable local college. But when his credits were rejected and he was informed he d have to start over as a freshman, he decided to change course. When I started reading and studying and seeing all the people that were really big world changers, it wasn t necessarily that they were all in college, he said. The biggest difference was they were in control of their finances, they knew how to budget, they knew how to invest, and most of them were owning businesses and owning companies.