Richard Baker
speaker
1,143 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 7 Jul
Richard Baker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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My father then went into the real estate business, ironically, with my mother's father, another family dynasty kind of story.
And my father and my grandfather started building shopping centers in 1959 and into the early 1970s.
I, as a child, my father would take me to go visit all of these properties and I would see what was going on and everyone would talk to me about real estate because I enjoyed it and it was interesting to me.
And, but I had a vision and my vision was opco propcos.
I wanted to own the stores that sat in the real estate.
And I thought that was fascinating.
So I wanted to own the supermarket inside the shopping center.
So I decided I wanted to go to the Cornell Hotel School to learn how to be an operator of businesses.
Because there's tremendous value if you can be an operator of businesses and an owner of real estate.
And that's my sweet spot that I find value and find interesting.
So after graduating from the hotel school, I was gonna go start a prototype for a restaurant chain.
And my father's like, oh no, you should come work with me.
We have seven people in an office.
We have an accountant, a lawyer, and we have properties.
And you'll learn a lot more listening to me every day.
And you should do this.
I said, well, I'm gonna do everything.
I'm gonna do the restaurant and I'm gonna learn from you and do all of that.
And so I graduated from Cornell the next day.
I went to work with my father.
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