Alex Smereczniak
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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Like what if someone gets assaulted or things get stolen?
Like they have no reason to put their neck out to let this college laundry thing.
So then we're like, all right, this is a problem.
It's not a no, it's a no for now.
How do we get around this?
Yes.
We're like, we're going to make them like be entrepreneurial.
And so then we had all these students wanting to do that.
And the university still was like, ah, we don't know.
Like, who are you guys?
We want them to do it, but who are you guys involved?
And what if you take advantage of our students?
Like all these no's and reasons.
So we eventually thought,
this is like an uphill battle.
Let's sell it when we graduate.
You want to go do investment banking.
I want to go do management consulting for a little bit and get a taste of that.
We had a really good offer to sell it for basically eight, nine X what we bought it for.
And as a college kid, as a 22 year old, I was like, we can retire now.