The Homeless Man Who Went Viral for Handing Out His Résumé on a Highway Had Quit His Job to Become an Entrepreneur -- and Even Though He Failed, He Plans to Try Again

David Casarez quit his job as a web developer at General Motors just months shy of his 26th birthday.

Years earlier, he'd made a pact with himself, that by the time he turned 26, he'd start his own business.

So Casarez cashed out his 401(k) and packed his bags for the San Francisco Bay Area, where he planned to launch a tech startup. He described it to me as a multi-sided platform covering the food industry, picking up where services like Blue Apron had left off.

Casarez's family thought he was crazy to leave a stable gig, especially since he wouldn't have money to cover the cost of rent in California and would have to live out of his van...

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/317767

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by Idham Azhari