"What an amazing year, what an amazing . . . last two years and what a great six weeks this has been. I'm really excited not only for this year, but also next year. I've already committed my pledge to [AD] Ed Kull and the athletic department and Rick Pitino and the team for next year."
Mike Repole, the billionaire entrepreneur who co-founded and sold beverage giants Glaceau and BodyArmor to Coca-Cola for a combined $9.7 billion, has an unexpected message for aspiring business owners: Don't do it. In an interview with The School of Hard Knocks, a popular social-media channel known for interviewing wealthy entrepreneurs, Repole shared his contrarian view on entrepreneurship, emphasizing the brutal realities that most success stories gloss over.
"This is important to me, and, you know, I live in Florida now, so the ability to go back to New York, and I haven't heard Madison Square Garden like this since 1985, 1990."