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Renard Johnson: “In 1979, he started the company that him and my mom had.”

Featuring: Renard Johnson, Mayor of El Paso | Texas

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Mayor Renard Johnson on Entrepreneurship, Business Growth & Fixing Broken Government

Published | Video Starts at 13:58

You're going to work. Nothing's going to come to you for free. So by them instilling that into me, you know, and then, you know, things started to get better. In 1979, he started the company that him and my mom had. They grew that to a point where they wanted to sell it, and they wanted to reap the benefits of their hard work. (13:58–14:03)

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