Mathew Knowles

So they would cut off all the bush and trees to make paper.

And I saw my grandfather go behind them and farm.

That was super genius.

They paid him to clear his land off so he could farm.

My dad was a truck driver, but he convinced the people he worked for to let him use this truck all the time.

And he would go tear down houses and he would sell the wood, the copper, the aluminum.

He would buy old cars and sell all the parts.

He would make 10 times what he was making, working.

My mom was a colored maid who made $3 a day.

She convinced that white woman and her friends to give all the hand-me-downs.

all their hand-me-downs and on the weekend i saw my mother and her two best friends because they used to make me three at the needle as they were getting older i saw them make these beautiful quilts made ten times more than she made so i got to grow up in that kind of environment of creativity and thinking outside of the box

So to have that, again, that genetic in a different way, to see my parents and their entrepreneurship was, you know, that's what was still in the back of my head growing up, that I can do this, be motivated by my parents, that I can be the best that I could be.

getting encyclopedias when they didn't have a lot of money, but taught me to research, research, knowledge is power.

All of those things is what I think in my toolkit.

Well, you have to stay relevant.

The world is changing all that every day, every second now with technology.

And, you know, you heard me tell my background in corporate, it was technology.

So in technology, you have to evolve and modify because technology changes by the hour.

So I think the second reason, Mick, is because I work as a professor now 20 plus years around young people.

And I think that really helps.