Exactly...
"I realized then that when you work for somebody else, you're basically their slave," he says. "From that day on I swore I'd never work for anyone else. That was the beginning of my journey."
O'Leary writes on LinkedIn that he got home with "tears of hot rage stinging my cheeks." He told his stepfather that he'd never work for anyone again, to which his stepdad replied, "Even if you're self-employed, you'll be serving someone," explaining that business owners have obligations to their customers and shareholders.
O'Leary writes that his stepfather's lesson became clear years later, but he was convinced that he would one day become an entrepreneur.
He went back to the mall in 2009 to see if his old boss was still around. He wanted to thank her.
"I never did find her — and when I visited the mall I realized I could buy it today if I wanted and bulldoze it — but she was a very important part of my decision-making for the rest of life," he tells us.
"That's how it started. I'll never forget it."
So what is wrong with that? He got fired when he was young, and is now a billionaire. What was the point of this missive?
Bill Gates was a high school dropout and became a billionaire. What was the point of even mentioning any of this?