David Rosenthal: belief

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…Yup. It just turns to software instead of candy bars. Anyway, this is all during forest freshman year at Berkeley. The summer comes and of course, the cafeteria closes down, so he needs to get a job for the summer. That’s when he joins the traveling Camel cigarette sales team. That probably is when somewhere or another, maybe it was in Chicago, maybe it was in Minneapolis, he reconnects with his dad, Frank, and discovers that Frank had become a wealthy man. I think regardless of whether Forrest had anything to do with the Milky Way idea, launch, or anything like that, meeting his dad, seeing that there is a business in the family, starts recalibrating Forrest’s ambitions even higher than just being an engineer who can now go run a mine. He’s like, oh, I should run a business. I should run my family’s business, I should run my dad’s business. I imagine seeing one of his dad’s businesses be successful is a different type of data point for him. He always knew, my dad starts a company and it fails, and just seeing an existence proof of a successful business has got to be a reorientation for him.…

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