Tag: origin story
#origin story
Posts tagged origin story from the Patrick Horsman Foundation Scholarship blog.
My First Business Was a Parking Lot. I Was Five.
How a five-year-old living two blocks from a college football stadium turned game-day traffic into his first taste of running a business.
Read post →May 15, 2026 · 5 min readWhy I Sold Pizza Instead of Chocolate Bars
A ninth-grade fundraiser in Halifax taught me to question the default and find a smarter way to hit the number.
Read post →May 27, 2026 · 6 min readEthernet Express: The College Company That Taught Me About Controls
At the University of Arizona I built my first real company installing network cards, and learned the hard way why every business needs controls.
Read post →May 30, 2026 · 6 min readFrom a United Airlines Cubicle to Blue Sand Securities
Two internships taught me what I did not want and what I did, and a friendship made that summer became an eighteen-year company that raised over $15 billion.
Read post →June 1, 2026 · 6 min readA $3.2 Billion Settlement, Appraisal Rights, and a $1.2 Billion Fund
How a meeting with a class-action attorney led to a litigation-finance fund built on a little-known investor right, and grew to $1.2 billion.
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