I know the guy and his wife in the thumbnail. He started out as a welder in Texas. Then started a very small welding/fabrication business, doing most the work himself. He literally came from zero, and now owns a company that does many Millions per month in oil rig equipment manufacturing/weld work. It’s very personal to him, when he emphasized that education wasn’t first, but never quitting was… Because he himself didn’t go to college, though he does employ a lot of college educated folks. EDIT: I’ve been instructed to correct an inaccuracy . Doug enrolled at Tyler College in 1974 and dropped out almost immediately. Then, enrolled at the University of Texas, in the fall of 1976, where he stopped attending in 1977. He spent a handful of years welding, THEN, got a sales job that he worked for about 5-years… As a metal and welding craftsmen, he was tasked with selling the types of equipment and services he would go on to offer at the company he would start, just days after leaving that very sales job. —- That said, his company now employs a ton of people, and offer employment at every level of skill and persuasion. Due to that, there are varying levels of employee reviews, from “treats us like family” to “worst place to work ever”. Employees gonna employee, I guess. I know Mr. Hamblin in passing, because we both attended a few of the same real estate “masterminds”, if you will. That said, I don’t co-sign for his character or his company. I do know, that his company started as a one man show, with no resources but a trade and a truck and has grown from that 38 years ago… To do the kind of income that keeps him and his wife on a private jet, in a huge house, always in the finest clothes, and steadily employing an army of families… From scratch.