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PierceHeardSecondEssay 4 - 08 May 2024 - Main.PierceHeard
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Reginald Lewis' Affect on My Life and Career | | | Overview | |
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< | Reginald F. Lewis was a revolutionary. He was the first African American to build a billion dollar company,wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_Foods and he paved a path for many more behind him. Witnessing the heights Lewis was able to reach inspired a generation of Black men and women to bet on themselves and take risks to become today's business leaders. While the job is far from over, Lewis' legacy is far reaching and dramatically pushed the fight for equal representation in the world's elite in the right direction. | >
> | Reginald F. Lewis was a revolutionary. He was the first African American to build a billion dollar company, and he paved a path for many more behind him. Witnessing the heights Lewis was able to reach inspired a generation of Black men and women to bet on themselves and take risks to become today's business leaders. While the job is far from over, Lewis' legacy is far reaching and dramatically pushed the fight for equal representation in the world's elite in the right direction. | | | African American Success Before Reginald Lewis | | | Reginald Lewis' Success | |
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< | Reginald Lewis was a hard worker his whole life. In fact, his hard work and dedication led him down a path to gain admission to one of the top law schools in the world without even applying https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Lewis! From law school, he took the path that so many others do when exiting a great school with a crushing amount of debt; he entered private practice with one of the largest law firms on Wall Street. However, Lewis quickly found out that this was not fulfilling enough for him. After only two years with the firm, Lewis hung his own shingle and became the first Black owned law firm on Wall Street. He practiced for 15 years at his own firm specializing in corporate work before taking his next leap of faith. After acquiring years of business acumen and realizing that he was not getting a large enough piece of the pie for all of his work he decided to leave the law and create his own private equity firm. In four short years after taking the risk to start his own shop, he acquired a business valued at $985 million. This propelled Lewis to become one of the most dominant people in America's financial capital. With his newfound wealth and power he realized he was in a position where he could make a meaningful impact on the world. He established a foundation in his name that devoted money to universities for scholarships and research, to support an African-American culture museum, and he used his legal expertise to be a council to New York's Commission for Racial Justice. | >
> | Reginald Lewis was a hard worker his whole life. In fact, his hard work and dedication led him down a path to gain admission to one of the top law schools in the world without even applying! From law school, he took the path that so many others do when exiting a great school with a crushing amount of debt; he entered private practice with one of the largest law firms on Wall Street. However, Lewis quickly found out that this was not fulfilling enough for him. After only two years with the firm, Lewis hung his own shingle and became the first Black owned law firm on Wall Street. He practiced for 15 years at his own firm specializing in corporate work before taking his next leap of faith. After acquiring years of business acumen and realizing that he was not getting a large enough piece of the pie for all of his work he decided to leave the law and create his own private equity firm. In four short years after taking the risk to start his own shop, he acquired a business valued at $985 million. This propelled Lewis to become one of the most dominant people in America's financial capital. With his newfound wealth and power he realized he was in a position where he could make a meaningful impact on the world. He established a foundation in his name that devoted money to universities for scholarships and research, to support an African-American culture museum, and he used his legal expertise to be a council to New York's Commission for Racial Justice. | | | Reginald Lewis' Effect On Me |
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