Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain: How I Went from Gang Member to Multimillionaire Entrepreneur

Authors: Blair, Ryan
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: BUS025000, BIO003000, BUS046000
ISBN: 9781101517055, Related ISBNs: 1101517050, 1591844037, 1591845998, 9781101517055, 9781591844037
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 256,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: The incredible story of a gang member who became a multimillionaire CEO.

Ryan Blair's middle-class upbringing came to an abrupt end when his father succumbed to drug addiction and abandoned his family. Blair and his mother moved to a dangerous neighborhood, and soon he was in and out of juvenile detention, joining a gang just to survive. Then his mother fell in love with a successful entrepreneur who took Ryan under his wing. With his mentor's help, Blair turned himself into a wildly successful multimillionaire, starting and selling three companies worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

This book will inspire and guide people who are willing to do whatever necessary-hard work, long hours, sweat equity-to take their vision from paper to pavement. Blair gives readers a road map for successful entrepreneurship.
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