Harley Finkelstein

There were 4,000 students at the school.

And there were students from all different backgrounds.

Some live in Boca.

Some were being bused in from Delray, a much lower income community.

There were police officers because that's what you had in big American public high schools.

And

I was scared shitless.

I don't know sort of what drove me then, but within a year, I was president of student council.

I was wrestling varsity because I figured out actually one of the advantages of being short and kind of stocky was I was a pretty good wrestler.

And so I was able to change my circumstances by sheer will.

at that point.

The second thing that happened around that same period of time was that I really, I was 13.

And as you've heard before, you heard me talk about all 13 year old Jewish kids go to a lot of bar mitzvahs almost every weekend.

And I was enamored by DJs.

I thought these DJs at these bar mitzvahs were like magicians.

And I really thought these were the coolest people I'd ever seen.

And although my dad didn't have a lot of money, the one thing he did do, and he's done this my whole life, was any time I had an idea and I shared it with my father, he would say, great idea.

Actually, there would be a physical manifestation of that, which was that he would make me these business cards.

And tonight you and I are having dinner at my home.

We'll go to my home office and I will show you those early business cards, but I still have them lined up in my office.