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This Serial Entrepreneur Started Practicing Door-to-Door Sales When He Was 5 Years Old Carlos Reyes talks about how leaving his corporate job helped him unleash the entrepreneurial spirit he found in childhood.

By David Meltzer

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On this episode of The Playbook, serial entrepreneur Carlos Reyes shares his insights on:

  • The story of how he created a door-to-door sales business at age 5 while living in Mexico [5:03].
  • How adversity led Carlos to use entrepreneurship as a means of survival [8:12].
  • Why his biggest key to building a fruitful business relationship is looking to be of service first [15:16].

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David Meltzer

Co-Founder of Sports 1 Marketing, Speaker, Author and Business Coach

David Meltzer, co-founder of Sports 1 Marketing and host of Entrepreneur's podcast, “The Playbook”, is a Top 100 Business Coach, global public speaker and three-time international best-selling author who has been honored by Variety as “Sports Humanitarian of the Year”.

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