“A lady cursed me out one day at the arena. I reached in my pocket to give her $1,000 and she smacked it out of my hand,” Shaq reminisced. “She said, ‘Why doesn’t anyone try to make affordable shoes?’”
Shaq just shaqin
Average cost of college is under $150k/person. Warrant Buffet is worth $133,500,000,000 (rounded heavily). Warranty buffet could pay for approximately 890,000 people to go to college.
However given the fact that is most of a million people, and how much of a racket education in the US, I think the actual figure is much higher, because he could do several things to drastically reduce the overhead involved.
Average cost of college is under $150k/person
My guy, what? Tuition prices in the US are fucked, but “under $150k/person” is such a weird way to put $25,290
He could have went to a state college or university system instead of the for-profit University of Phoenix.
Shaq is great but he chose an online school and then paid them more money so it wasn’t online.
“You need 15 people in the class Mr. Shaq”
“No problem, I’ll just pay for 15 friends to take the class”
“…uh, we don’t require 16 people, but you do you. We’ll gladly take your money.”
I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt and say he didn’t know Aussie gambling is 90% money laundering.
But advertising for gambling in general is scuzzy.
He is a Overall a good dude. I love what he did with his Sneakers:
As per Joe Pompliano, In 1998, when Shaq was on his way out of the Orlando arena, a mother was seen cursing at him. She posed the question, “Why don’t one of you s** o** a B****** make an affordable sneaker?” in front of him that made him wonder. He even offered her $200 which she violently refused.
The Lakers legend stopped to think about the enormous difference in the actual cost of basketball shoes and how much a typical family could spend. This led to his decision to leave Reebok and start his own line. A thought occurred in Shaq’s mind and he turned to the biggest retailer in the world, Walmart.
It’s been two decades, and Shaq has been selling most of his shoes at Walmart for $15-$30, compared to Nike’s $200 and more. This helped him sell over 120 million pairs of shoes.
A lot of stuff actually. Many countries have strong anti child labour laws. Of course I know illegal sweatshops do still exist.
A shoe factory in Bangladesh. Bangladesh is one of the fastest growing economies in the world now.
Actually, honestly, yes I did. My bad. I apologize.
In the back of my brain I knew there was something I was forgetting about as I typed and it was on the tip of my tongue.
Damn, I keep trying to think that Shaq isn’t retarded.
And he consistently lets me down.
70 IQ