Shaan Puri

So he lived in Jamaica.

Okay, so here's the story.

So his name's Gordon Stewart and he's born in Jamaica, white kid born in Jamaica.

His mom calls him Butch because he was chubby.

So he becomes known as Butch for the rest of his life, which is amazing.

As a young kid, he does all kinds of odd job little hustles.

So he's like helping out the fishermen, then he buys a boat.

Then he starts making money boating the fishermen around and repairing boats.

And he would skip school altogether.

He was like, he's just like, I just want to be on the water.

And he goes, he said later, I didn't want to be a businessman.

I want to be a fisherman, just a rich fisherman.

And that led him into business.

So I love this guy.

So he's like, along the way, he's living in Jamaica.

Obviously, Jamaica is super hot.

And he realizes as air conditioning becomes a bigger and bigger thing that air conditioning is going to be huge in the Caribbean.

Things take time to diffuse from different places.

And so maybe it was normal in the States, but it wasn't as normal in the Caribbean yet.

And so he saves up $3,000 and he starts a company called Appliance Traders Limited.