| Growing up in what was realistically a retirement community, most of the "children" of the retirees were still up north being independent adults just like they were before their senior parents had retired in quiet old Florida. Only the ones retired at relatively younger ages (or with relatively younger wives) were the ones that actually had school-age kids in the house for us few native kids to interact with. It was easy to see as a preteen that there was good correlation between the early retirements and the ones that had started their own companies. One of my buddy's dads had become an entrepreneur before he was able to finish college (who would have thought?) when he was transferring to an out-of-state university. The problem was it should be possible for a student to physically move their meager belongings easily & cheaply if they are willing to do the labor themselves, especially since moving companies were very expensive/overpriced because they make most of their money providing the labor to begin with, and were designed for infrequent moves made by whole families. What the students really could have used was a small cargo trailer that could be towed behind an ordinary car and be rented as needed for the one-way trip and dropped off at the destination. It was the only missing ingredient. That's why they called their startup U-Haul. There wasn't any competition at the time, not much disruption needed. His dad was the one with the Rolls-Royce. |