Tomorrow, November 17th, is National Entrepreneurs Day. And perhaps no one better embodies what the day is about that Paul Orfalea.
Back in 1970, the young man with e kinky red hair started a small business, making photocopies for students at UC Santa Barbara.
The business took off, and before long Orfalea — known to his friends as Kinko — was a successful entrepreneur.
But Paul Orfalea’s story is all the more remarkable when you understand that all his life, he has dealt with dyslexia and ADHD. Wait’ll you hear what experts told his parents that he would end up doing for a living.
I met him in 2005, years after he had parted ways with the company he founded, and had become a teacher.
So here now, from 2005, Paul Orfalea.
Paul Orfalea will be 73 later this month.
He is a philanthropist and a visiting professor at California Lutheran University’s School of Management.