Last year on the last night of finals week I sat with a forlorn, desperate look, staring into space wondering to myself
not how I was ever going to be able to make it through tomorrow and remain enrolled. I was looking to the summer: Where am
I going to find a job? I move out in three days and by then I need money for rent, food and so on.
A cell phone rang in the distance. I thought nothing of it. A friend came up moments later and informed me that her father,
CEO and controlling partner of one of the top insurance firms in Los Angeles, wanted to hire me as an intern for the
summer. This summer I find myself back home in Vancouver, Canada, in a dark, unrelentingly depressing office just endlessly
filing, filing, filing.
Now is the time where we students rise to show the corporate world what they don't know that they want. They want us, they
need us. They need our drive, our determination, our ambition. How else can business and commerce flourish without these necessary
elements? No more filing for us, and, oh yeah, get your own damn coffee... I have work to do, a business to run, and
your job is mine in three months.
First rule of investment: One never invests in a product or an idea; one invests in people. We believe corporate America has
a duty to invest in tomorrow. But who are the "people" of tomorrow? Those green, ignorant, snotty-nosed punks that have so
much ambition and so much more knowledge than you that they have the potential to grow a small business into a publicly traded
corporation by the time it takes you to wake up and put your dentures on in the morning let alone by the time you reach the
office and check your email.
