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C-Level with Chris DeBlasio: Guest Jonathan Page from InPrime Legal
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C-Level with Chris DeBlasio: Guest Jonathan Page from InPrime Legal
Today on C Level, Jonathan Page, chief legal officer of InPrime Legal. We talk about being an entrepreneur, and the journey and struggles to success. So, I mean, we've known each other for a few years now.
- [Jonathan] Yeah.
- And been workin' together. So for the people that don't know like just give me your background. You know, how did you start? How did you get into the business? I know a little bit of the entrepreneurial side we'll get into that, but tell me about.
- Yeah, so my grandfather, right? Had an entrepreneurial bug like a lot of us do,
- [Chris] Right.
- and he decided to open a pulpwood company called Tatum and Page pulpwood company. And it was in Pittsburg, North Carolina back in the 1950's. He was really charismatic, he was a community guy, people loved him. He was good at sales, and he loved running the crews. So the business sort of exploded and they were doing really well. And he purchased a private airplane, he had an Olds '88.
- [Chris] Yeah, all right.
- He bought an Amoco filling station,
- [Chris] Yeah.
- and he had all these cool things.
- [Chris] Yeah. My dad was probably in fourth or fifth grade and my grandfather sort of didn't like the finance side of things. He didn't like the expense side, he just didn't want to keep track of track of that. So they got this finance guy to join the company. And the finance guy would tell my grandfather everyday that the books were good, right? And my grandfather felt like they were good because he was out there selling.
- Right.
- [Johnathan] And he saw all the jobs coming in. But in reality this finance guy was embezzling all the money, arguably. In my grandfathers eyes it was embezzlement but regardless the money was all gone and so--
- [Chris] Jeez.
- My dad what he remembers next is coming home from fourth grade. Rounding the barn door and seeing a single pulpwood truck back up to the home with furniture in every single direction. He walked up to the house, not knowing what was going on. My grandmother was out there he said "what, what, what's happening? I've got these school books".
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