He grew up on the gang and drug infested streets of Compton (Los Angeles), attended the University of Nevada and eventually found work as a bodyguard for the likes of rhythm and blues singer Bobby Brown.
His roots as an entrepreneur are very humble. More than a few household names, millionaires and indeed billionaires, owe at least some of their success and wealth to his ruthlessness and genius. And he did.īritain has never produced anyone remotely comparable. In the early 90s, as his name and fearsome reputation began to spread, it became very clear that this was a guy who was going to get to where he wanted to go by any means necessary.
He came up fearless, determined and totally unwilling to fail. In the story of risk and reward (at its most extreme) Marion ‘Suge’ Knight should be up there with the likes of Donald Trump. There is nothing required to qualify that statement or detract from it.
Not ‘black entrepreneur’ or ‘hip-hop entrepreneur’ or ‘street entrepreneur’. By Nels Abbey Follow ‘Suge’ Knight is one of the greatest entrepreneurs of our time.
