The 90-hour weeks part?
The fact that he was doing it for a fossil fuel company?
The fact that he’s worth fucking $9.5 billion?
Also, not in the headline, but-
The fact that he did it back in the 90s when you could actually successfully open a small business and make money from it as if it’s relevant today?
The business is a franchise called Raising Caine’s Chicken, which I’ve never had, but if you go by Yelp reviews, it’s either the best restaurant that has ever existed or pretty mediocre.
Also, Wikipedia says very little about his early life, but apparently his parents could afford to send him to a private catholic school, so he didn’t exactly grow up improverished.
This is the school- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episcopal_School_of_Baton_Rouge
Current tuition is $20,000 a year for high school- and he went in high school- and I doubt (accounting for inflation) that it was so much more affordable when he was a kid that poor kids could go.
But who knows? Maybe he got a scholarship. Considering he got loans from friends according to the article, I doubt it.