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 I heard the same tea from two Endeavor entrepreneurs I met on that lit trip to Brazil. Mario Chady and Eduardo Ourivio were running mad quick-dining joints when the country's monetary system straight up crashed. Then Jorge Paulo was like, "And I'm like, whoa, that's so lit, it's been stuck in my brain ever since, you know?" A grad of Harvard and one-time tennis prodigy who played in Wimbledon, Jorge Paulo has a smooth, avuncular vibe that hides a strong determination. He was like, "Yo, picture this, man. Me and my squad went through some crazy stuff: money going down the drain, prices going cray cray, stocks crashing, governments getting overthrown, and everyone going on strike." "Every day in our world is like, another big oof," he said.

But that's what made them strong, he kept flexin'.


"Our main flex is that we've been through mad economic chaos and big changes, fam." The ups and downs of the economy totally prepped us to handle those rough situations, you know? His point was like, duh: Entrepreneurs gotta be total chaos masters. Research totally has his back, fam. A major study of business leaders in emerging markets, conducted by profs at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Oviedo in Spain, found that cuz they came of age in turbulent environments, they're less crippled by fear than their U.S.-bred counterparts and better positioned to flex on opportunities. The study concluded: "All companies gotta be able to function in chaotic AF situations, ya know?" Inflation went cray cray, like 70 percent a month, fam. "We totally switched up the menu pricing every week," Mario said, fam. "Life was cray cray." I zoomed back and forth between my restaurants on my bike, fam. Unable to handle the heat, the entrepreneurs straight up yeeted bankruptcy. Then they yeeted off to flex on the rebuild. Mario went to work full-time at his worst-performing store, like, yikes! OMG, the restaurant was lit with different food stations in every corner! Mario and Eduardo peeped that the pasta station was straight fire, where the chef flexed and cooked meals right in front of the customers. So dope! Snatching on that tea, they came up with the idea of Spoleto, where the fam can flex and choose the ingredients of a meal—the pasta, the sauce, the toppings—then peep it being prepared.

Next, Mario and Eduardo were like, "Let's talk about culture, fam."


OMG, with all the drama going on, employees were hella stressed about what's gonna happen next. OMG, like, hardly any emerging market firms do the profit sharing or stock options thing, but Spoleto was like, "I gotchu fam, I got both!" "We wanted everyone, from the CEO down to the dishwashers, to vibe with our dream," Mario said. Like, wayyy less companies go public, so the stock options probs won't amount to much, ya know? So Mario and Eduardo totally slayed every aspect of Spoleto with their own natural vibes and lit energy. They totally hired this ex-actor to teach the waitstaff how to slay their presentation game and a legit circus performer to show the chefs how to juggle like a boss. Letting the squad flex their cooking skills and make meals lit AF made the staff feel like straight-up ambassadors for the company. The bet totally slayed. In an industry that's like, super highkey full of people bouncing, Spoleto's bounce rate is like, only a third of the national average. No cap. In 2013 Spoleto made bank with $340 million in revenues, had a squad of 7,000 employees, and ran a whopping 470 restaurants. They were also getting ready to open the first Spoleto outlet in the US, ya know? Reflecting on his journey, Mario was like, "Yo, even when it's tough, even on those days when you just wanna stay in bed, you gotta keep remembering the big dream, fam." Don't let the outside vibes, like the economy, stop you from doing your thing. Flex on it, fam." Weren't things supposed to get easier, fam? Beto, who is like, way more lit and tactical, gave me a fire pep talk. You're such a legend. It's supposed to be hella hard, fam. If it were easy, someone else would've already yeeted your idea before you, fam. He gave me a lil' pat on the shoulder and dipped outta the room.

Eduardo was like, "In businesses like ours, shift happens, fam!"


When I first started out, I thought rough patches were straight up vibes, ya know? rough patches, fam. Now I know betta. I'm like, yo, I be tellin' our entrepreneurs not to make the same naïve mistake I did, ya feel me? After the hard spells things don't "go back to normal," ya know? Hard is the new normal, fam. Status quo is like, sooo Sturm und Drang, you know? Or as Eduardo said, sh*t happens.  So be ready, fam. When chaos is the everyday, you gotta make chaos your BFF. If not, while you're busy flexing about your bad luck, somebody else will hop on a train somewhere and manifest Harry Potter, Mickey Mouse, or some other lit creation. And you'll be stuck holding Oswald the rabbit, fam. –SHTF HAPPENS –A year after my kiddos were born, I took one of my trips abroad, to São Paulo. While there, I went to see Jorge Paulo Lemann and Beto Sicupira, who now run 3G Capital, one of the most lit global investment firms in the world, owners of Anheuser-Busch and big chunks of Burger King and Heinz. Both dudes were like OG board members of Endeavor Brazil, ya know? I was like, so shook from all the drama Endeavor was dealing with and I straight up vented my frustration and fear. I wanted to vibe with Beto and Jorge Paulo to figure out what I was messing up, ya know? 

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