What Inspired Me to Become an Entrepreneur

Entrepreneurship wasn't a path that was really laid out from the beginning. An influential person in my life helped shape my thinking about being an entrepreneur, my grandfather on my dad's side. My grandfather started STS tires, which is Somerset Tire Service in New Jersey. He sold it to the big company that you know of as STS now. He was an entrepreneur. He came from Liverpool to escape the war and he lived in a gas station until he bought that same gas station.

Then he started a tire business and through the depression became very successful, he lived a successful life. He was able to pass legacy onto his kids. That was an exciting person to watch. Even though he didn't get to see me become an entrepreneur he was still influential in that perspective. He shaped my thought processes about whether or not I would go out and get a job or start my own business. Even though I went to college and went a similar route that a lot of us take, I ended up looking at entrepreneurship as a really exciting place to be. That is what influenced me for my business.

Hearing that my grandpa had started his own business from scratch and sold it showed me the freedom that he had. I saw that he had financial freedom. He was able to go on trips whenever he wanted. He took the family on trips. I also saw that where he kind of fell short in training up his children in different ways and passing on that financial aptitude or education, where I want it to be much better at that and understanding that we could talk about money. He had money but he never talked about money and it never flowed through the generations. It showed me that just having money doesn't educate you about money and being around money also doesn't necessarily educate you about money.

You still need to understand it, educate yourself about it and get a background in it. It encouraged me to be an entrepreneur because I saw the freedom that it created, but it also made me recognize that “Hey, you don't have to not talk about money”, It doesn't have to be taboo. It can be a tool that's utilized for things that you want to get done in your life, whether that's giving, traveling or any number of things. I wanted to understand it more holistically. Instead of just having success over here and wondering how does that apply? It helped open my mind up to saying, “okay, so having money is one piece of it, keeping money, preserving wealth, passing it on generationally, that's a separate thing”. And that also comes with its own lessons and own education that you have to explore.

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