Square master: how an American made $ 6 billion at the offices of Apple and Netflix

The family of John Sobrato, the son of immigrants from Italy, took up real estate by chance. My father had a restaurant in San Francisco. The business was successful, but during the Second World War it became impossible to get any vegetables or chickens. Then John's mother Ann came up with the idea to buy a ranch and grow vegetables and raise chickens herself. After the war, the situation with the products returned to normal, and the ranch was sold. But suddenly it turned out that the family earned more from its sale than from the restaurant for all four years of the war, although my father worked there 18 hours a day. “That's why I'm in real estate and not in the restaurant business,” John explained.