Lorenzo Fertitta on running casino at 24

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 พ.ค. 2017
  • Lorenzo Fertitta shares his father’s success story of rising through the ranks to eventually owning a casino, details of the family business and pressures of taking the reigns in his mid 20s.
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  • @johnallen3581
    @johnallen3581 5 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    Best interviewer ever, talk 10% listen 90% 👌🏽. Keep it up Graham

  • @HotBoxTrucking
    @HotBoxTrucking 5 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    "not a traditional family business" ..you got that right

  • @MontegaB
    @MontegaB 5 ปีที่แล้ว +112

    "It was really a family business" Yeah, we know Lorenzo

    • @zimtheinvaderofficial
      @zimtheinvaderofficial 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      No other way he could afford it at that age lol

    • @truetrumpist5207
      @truetrumpist5207 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ari96a Ye with on his desk a big old outboard motor

  • @jasoncarby4780
    @jasoncarby4780 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    His voice like this at 24 must have been eerie
    At 50 its a great voice

    • @tjo7329
      @tjo7329 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      he definitely didn't have his 50 year old voice at 24.... voices change over time...

  • @kungfublob5951
    @kungfublob5951 5 ปีที่แล้ว +203

    Let's not kid outselves. Guy comes from a family of mobsters.

    • @randyjohnson2885
      @randyjohnson2885 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      And rich people with connections.

    • @wq198mnr
      @wq198mnr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@randyjohnson2885 isn’t his cousin Tillman Fertitta? Billionaire in Houston

    • @wq198mnr
      @wq198mnr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @Liam seems a bit aggressive for a typo lol

    • @rumennikolov5163
      @rumennikolov5163 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Liam rofl you are a sad person, aren’t you?

    • @jamesnightingale2788
      @jamesnightingale2788 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The world needs more people like Liam, all this “everybody needs to get along” nonsense is infantile

  • @imranvp
    @imranvp 7 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    What an amazing interview! Graham asked all the right questions.
    Always wanted to get a deeper insight on this ultra-successful but otherwise low-key businessman. Lorenzo's a Don.

  • @brali1717
    @brali1717 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Gotta love a success story about how a rich kid made a boat load of money. Lol I do like Lorenzo though. At least he’s not snobby about it

  • @miketang8719
    @miketang8719 5 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Huge respect for Lorenzo, regardless if his father was the one who gave him these opportunities, he’s the one who worked hard and made something of those opportunities. I see so many “haters” in these comments attacking him and calling him spoiled and it makes no sense to me. In fact, he would be more spoiled if he didn’t take those opportunities just like all the people from wealthy families who end up blowing their parents money and doing nothing with their lives. Someone who makes the most of what their given and works hard even though they don’t have to is quite the opposite of spoiled.

    • @imanuel8883
      @imanuel8883 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Dennis Leavitt I’d say very different

    • @mrinmoychakravarty705
      @mrinmoychakravarty705 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's true rich people are rich because of their mindset

    • @cogen651
      @cogen651 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lol are you joking. Can you spell M
      O.B. LOL

    • @HunterThompson-kf1yq
      @HunterThompson-kf1yq 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Dumb ass, just like Tillman Fertitta, they are organized crime bosses who were groomed and handed it all.

  • @telefunkenyou47
    @telefunkenyou47 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    If Pimping is servicing the community in LV, then this man is a saint.

  • @toysofarkham
    @toysofarkham 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I never knew any of this... Great interview as usual

  • @alexanderbuzzo2375
    @alexanderbuzzo2375 5 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    This dude is like the Michael Corleone gone right

  • @loriwilliams161
    @loriwilliams161 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I was surfing Lahaina harbor (Maui, Hawaii), today and saw the yacht "Lonian" and the shadow boat "Hodor" anchored offshore. We don't see yachts like this in Maui much, so I decided to investigate it further. Who is the owner Lorenzo Fertitta, I asked myself. I was pleasantly surprised to see on these video interviews, that he appears to be a great guy. Very personable, hard working, intelligent and down-to-earth. Not at all like I thought a billionaire would be like. I really appreciate a person that takes stock in their upbringing / family. Lorenzo's strong work ethic comes from watching and participating, in his father's humble beginnings in business.

  • @user-tl4fi6oy8d
    @user-tl4fi6oy8d 4 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    LOL! This is the PG version of events... Yup, a plucky young Italian man just came up from Galvestan with a $1 in his pocket, became a bellboy at a local casino, and bingo-bango builds his OWN CASINO in a few years! Just like that! That's how the gambling business works, folks. Nothing more to see here! The incredible balls on Lorenzo to lie like this... You'd have to be a complete dew-eyed innocent, like Graham maybe, to believe this telling of the story.

    • @rbslammed6163
      @rbslammed6163 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Listen to Steve Wynn interview and you will hear the exact same PR pitch which conveniently leaves out the pain and suffering caused to innocent people and business to enable this “rags to riches” success. It’s just nonsense.

    • @anthonycarreira8045
      @anthonycarreira8045 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Graham really is a naive little guy lol

    • @lomparti
      @lomparti ปีที่แล้ว

      Apparently the Fertitta family were known to run gambling, strip joints and other unsavory businesses in Texas. I guess when there was a recession in Texas they decided there was more money to be made in Las Vegas.

  • @christopherjones1782
    @christopherjones1782 7 ปีที่แล้ว +147

    completely mob connected

    • @unknownslarry395
      @unknownslarry395 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Christopher Jones bullshit rumors around the Matt. It’s all bullcrap.

  • @VegasCyclingFreak
    @VegasCyclingFreak 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I designed the HVAC on one of the Fertitta's houses around 1995-1996. I didn't know who they were at the time.

    • @VegasCyclingFreak
      @VegasCyclingFreak 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The Prodigy - It wasn’t that big really. The new one in Queensridge built like 20 years later was pretty massive (different employer for me). My boss worked on that one. He later added on 400 sq feet to his nook and I think he spent $2,000,000 on it. Was kinda complicated due to structural. Anyway, I do big houses like that all the time but I never get to meet the owners.

  • @TheJoeGizzle
    @TheJoeGizzle 7 ปีที่แล้ว +89

    Don Corleone.

    • @fredo3106
      @fredo3106 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Joe Gil
      his dad is don Corleone.
      he's Michael Corleone

    • @lukeyacono3277
      @lukeyacono3277 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Joe Gil no

  • @ardighassemi4116
    @ardighassemi4116 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    OG

  • @flaviosonanini4493
    @flaviosonanini4493 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    thats how it is you need to suround you with smart people to make good decisions

  • @whitegoodman7465
    @whitegoodman7465 7 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    The Don!

  • @VP-wt5dv
    @VP-wt5dv 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Mafia had the foresight to become legit. Others stay in filth forever

  • @A-DUBCLUB
    @A-DUBCLUB 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The fertittas have been rich since the yr 1900. This present day lorenzo and his brother and cousins all billionaires. Whatta family!

  • @loveforthe90s
    @loveforthe90s 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What a life 👌🏼

  • @MichaelHayesagent
    @MichaelHayesagent ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice answer. He went out to las vegas, ya da ya da ya da, he had the opportunity to invest in a casino from the ground up. Such bs. People dont get those opportunities unless they are tied in , and the fertitta family form galveston was very much tied in .

  • @wesleygibbons8117
    @wesleygibbons8117 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Crazy to see now what this family has evolved with and the sale with the UFC. 1990's money was easy to make. Tell people what they want to hear and convince that there is nobody else. Regardless if you can do it or not, doesn't mater, there legit isn't anybody else lol. Keep the connections close, they're your life lines.

  • @702SinSuper
    @702SinSuper 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    They were connected to the Maceo Bros in Galveston Tx. Who were gangsters.

  • @taylortrash
    @taylortrash 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    everyone schedules their classes monday through Thursday lol

  • @Juliobrem
    @Juliobrem 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Funny all the comments on “Mob business “ . Try run a multimillion company with thousands of employees and add to the stress the fact that if you do not respond to the Mob they would send you to sleep. It’s insane .

    • @Juliobrem
      @Juliobrem 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Samuel Fagbemi k tho

  • @ecdctechmma
    @ecdctechmma 7 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    the italian mob was connected so much with vegas casinos in the 60s' and 70s
    and lorenzo is italian
    see the connection???

    • @endakennyisawanker5354
      @endakennyisawanker5354 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      The jews run vegas.

    • @thebusinesschannel3270
      @thebusinesschannel3270 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ecdctechmma the jealous haters are connected in TH-cam comments in 2017 and you just commented ok youtube. See the connection?

    • @krinklemcwrinkle4741
      @krinklemcwrinkle4741 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      💪💪💪💪

    • @unknownslarry395
      @unknownslarry395 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      ecdctechmma its all bullcrap.

    • @WH15P3R3R
      @WH15P3R3R 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@thebusinesschannel3270 For real. These average joes leading unremarkable lives spewing out bullshit about the success of others to compensate for their own failures. Its funny because you see these type of people everyday and everywhere complaining about everything.

  • @garza7676
    @garza7676 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Mob helped him

  • @tribalchief1862
    @tribalchief1862 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Lorenzo The GOAT

  • @cmz5847
    @cmz5847 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Is this the guy that basically founded the UFC ?

  • @Gala_tha_Prince
    @Gala_tha_Prince ปีที่แล้ว

    River boat casino in Missouri … isn’t that Ozark to a tee

  • @rayray7244
    @rayray7244 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I want to believe he wasn't mobbed up but I seriously doubt it. Good for them though!

  • @devanman7920
    @devanman7920 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    obviously growing so rapidly in Vegas at that time he was mobbed up.

  • @sychophantt
    @sychophantt 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    #mobbedup

  • @johnibaka3941
    @johnibaka3941 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    let's tell it like it is....you pop was in the mob

  • @ragnar0528
    @ragnar0528 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Instead of attacking the man learn something.

  • @mickmangles8000
    @mickmangles8000 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Gambling destroys lives ...

    • @doctorblue6375
      @doctorblue6375 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      People choosing to gamble destroy their own lives. Big difference

    • @denishajdarmataj2914
      @denishajdarmataj2914 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Gambling destroys lives, if you lose.

  • @cogen651
    @cogen651 ปีที่แล้ว

    Started a lowly bell boy, and then owned a casino lol, yeah right. We all know where the money came from.

  • @ikigai47
    @ikigai47 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Who gives af if his pops had mob ties. Lorenzo and Frank have been nothing but class. They know how to treat people and no one that deals with them from bell hops to fighters has a bad word to say. I'll take them over some clean as a whistle stuck up billionaire snob that treats non richies as peasants

  • @teacheradvicehanoi5444
    @teacheradvicehanoi5444 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    [Godfather theme intensifies]

  • @bw4500
    @bw4500 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    no mention of being neck deep in mafia connections and dirty money

  • @greatestofalltime01
    @greatestofalltime01 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    lorenzo gambini

  • @selfiekroos1777
    @selfiekroos1777 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Mafia money

  • @bryanfrombuffalo7685
    @bryanfrombuffalo7685 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    His dad is making 75 cnts a hr...and oh ok

  • @RL-ng2yf
    @RL-ng2yf 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    he Italian so.... mobb ties

  • @khabibnurmagedove3098
    @khabibnurmagedove3098 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why they sold the ufc

    • @zakhriskin1602
      @zakhriskin1602 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Because they got BILLIONS for it.

  • @Clymax01
    @Clymax01 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Mafia family

  • @greg6898
    @greg6898 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Everything with tony is secret this omertà that

  • @srreventon
    @srreventon 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am very jelous of their mega yachts....

  • @andremcfarlane2821
    @andremcfarlane2821 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Why lie ? u should be proud of your heritage your dad was in the Mob non wrong with it most of the ultra rich families money have come from underhanded and illegal business come on Lorenzo if u were more truthful I'd respect u but come on

    • @mayhemd
      @mayhemd 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      André Mc Farlane don't hate successful people

    • @doctorblue6375
      @doctorblue6375 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What do you expect him to go on a live interview to be seen by thousands of people and admit mafia activity? Like wtf lol

  • @bryanfrombuffalo7685
    @bryanfrombuffalo7685 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Gram acts questions like someones tickling his bum

  • @MillennialRabbi
    @MillennialRabbi 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Graham's pink shirt is distracting

  • @adamcoyne230
    @adamcoyne230 7 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    i wish my daddy gave me everything.

    • @GravyyTrain
      @GravyyTrain 7 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      you give your kids everything then

    • @jaybird-oi1te
      @jaybird-oi1te 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Adam Coyne you sound like a jealous bitch!

    • @haikalrosli8579
      @haikalrosli8579 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Sorry to hear that your dad's a loser LOL. You could have a million dollars and you would still not be able to build a UFC-like empire with that mindset

    • @gu3sswh075
      @gu3sswh075 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Adam Coyne why is that anyone's problem?

  • @stickykitty
    @stickykitty 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Daddy's blue eyed boy
    Got everything a spoilt brat could ask for