good morning beautiful people all right
this this is a beautiful boat it’s it’s
a 1999 correct craft Aeronautics
keyboard it’s it’s orange and blue and
filled with very beautiful colors and it
has a very big engine in it and it’s
very fast now I know that this means
this is a lot of you don’t know or it
doesn’t mean anything much to you how
are you probably you don’t understand
why but I I just can’t help myself but
to see something and put boots and
everything that I see so I just had to
do that to get over my nervousness but
anyway who is a Randy Pitts this guy
have now a self driven ambitious young
man has passionate about water sports
and boats and I am also the owner of
three boats and a company also I’ve
never had any experience in business
before I’ve never attended any business
classes never done business in high
school
cut or in college just never done
anything business but I own a business
right so four years ago I I couldn’t
swim I know I’m passionate about water
sports and I have a water sport company
but I couldn’t swim I just got out of
high school and I was pretty much
clueless as to what I wanted to do with
my life so I started college I only
lasted one semester
I shamefully I failed math I was only
doing two subjects fail math but I
managed to pass English but hey now I do
my own bookkeeping you know so anyway I
I so then I I gotta I always loved boats
very passionate about boats so I thought
getting a job as a crew on a ferry would
have been a good idea so I managed to
get one started doing that fell in love
with it decided that okay well I love
boats then I could start you know make a
career of becoming a captain boat
captain so that for a while and then an
opportunity came up opportunity there I
don’t think there are any any bad
opportunities there good opportunities
the good opportunities they they make
you happy temporarily they’re better
opportunities these would lead you to
your passion and then they’re passionate
opportunities these are the ones that
you need to look out for so a passionate
opportunity if it opens your mind it
helps you to think outside the box you
know it gets you overexcited the
passionate opportunities so I the
opportunity that I got was a watersports
job so I got to be a watersports
assistant at a resort so I did that for
a little while and I learned quite a lot
about watersports I was I was I was
actually really impressed and really
excited I it was a new experience for me
so I felt a different kind of happiness
so that’s what led me to you know
putting the
Kru Java side and you know to do the
watersports full-time so did that for a
while again and then realize that the
result was gonna close the season so now
I left my job got this new job and then
the resort is gonna close
so then I started thinking and nothing
came up and one day on a lunch break I
went for a sale and saw some hooby cats
some sailboats oh holy cat as a sailor
would break down a nearby island so I
decided to go for a sail and I saw the
case closed by five minutes fine went
for a sail ended up walking onto the
island saw open building walked into the
building and I was I was really excited
when I got in there because I found a
new passion I love water sports at this
point and then Here I am walking into
this building and I see so many new
activities and so many new equipment for
water sports so I was like wow you know
this is this is really interesting I was
a nice so I walked around building for a
while explored then I went for a walk on
the island
and about two minutes into my walk I
found the office and on the way out was
the human resources manager so I was
like great I asked her for a job like
the result I was walking I was gonna
close anyway so why not so I ended up
getting the job and I started working
there it became a watersports system
they took that on full-time and this
island ended up being Richard Branson’s
private island Mecca
no I this is the first time I’ve ever
been on Necker Island it’s a private
island and I literally just sailed over
there and asked for a job and got it
so things were going well though you
know got the job
you know everything’s nice so at this
point I didn’t know how to swim
still so then that’s when I learned to
swim my neck oh great great great
experience I learned to swim
I learned to Dave scuba dive I actually
learned to scuba dive before I could
swim but anyway I learned to swim and
dive and do like a bunch of kite surfing
and wakeboarding and waterskiing and I
learned a bunch of different activities
so i i i was really happy at this stage
you know i thought this was it like you
know forget about being a bull captain i
found a new passion this is what makes
me happy
this opportunity this was a passionate
opportunity you know because i’m happy
and I feel like I’m I’m in my zone know
and I after two years I realized that
you know I pretty much learned
everything that I could in two years
because I put my mind to it and when you
have a passion for something you know
you don’t you don’t ever limit yourself
you know you always want to keep going
forward and keep learning new stuff and
you know it’s just no limit so I learned
everything in two years and I could from
not being able to swim to you know
becoming even one of the best sailors on
the team and I decided okay well you
know I’m ready for the next step
what is it so I always had passion for
boat like I said and I wanted to start
my own charter company and rental ended
up doing my research and realized that I
had a thousand competitors to start with
between Virgin Gorda and Tortola so
that’s when I said okay well if this is
gonna work then I need to be different
so I said okay I love boats and now I
love water sports – then why not make a
combination and see if is gonna work we
walk
I said okay went back to the drawing
board made a proposal and ended up being
really good and I had a few people read
it and they were like yeah it’s good so
I was ready for the next step at this
moment
so I was walking and talking to a friend
in a boatyard he has his own boat yard
and he I was telling him well you know I
have this this idea I want to start this
company you know but I need a ski boat
it’s not possible without a ski boat and
he was like he had a really nice one in
his yard like when I say really nice
it’s like so nice I was like I started
thinking I was like maybe then I could
try to find the owner for this boat and
see if I can like manage it and you know
see if we could work something out his
exact words to me was like boss get that
out to be ahead cuz it’s not going to
happen
okay fine okay and he was like but I
have I have one in the booth yet it’s
way in the back I haven’t seen it for a
while but you go check it out give me
the directions anyway it ended up being
this one I got it for a dollar
but hey yeah this is it she was already
in the boatyard already unfortunate Oh
only a dollar so in my budget and it
even came with its own trailer so you
know great deal making progress so I got
this board and I’m excited now but then
look at the state of so I honest I
worked as hard as I could I have never
done any work on a boat before even
though it was a crew like I’ve never
done any fiberglass work or any any sort
of boat construction and so I kind of
figured it out I screwed a lot of things
up but anyway so I this was the one time
in my life that I can remember I work
so hard but this was the outcome I I was
I was really happy with this it was a
real load off of me but so the process
for this know I needed to find funding
because this is not cheap so I needed to
find funding I had my good proposal I
went to several banks and I was very
young to get this ski boat to where it
was it cost the boat itself would cost
about $50,000 I probably had about 500
so you know obviously I was rejected by
the banks because then you know is no
connection I they have nothing to hold
onto
like I just have this good proposal but
what you know so anyway I felt I felt
really bad I felt really sad I was like
oh I was almost depressed so I was like
man you know things are going so good
for me I got my boat like you know
anyway I one day I was just on working
back down back to walking you know kind
of put it aside but I know this wasn’t
the end we went back to work one day I
saw Richard Branson walking home he was
walking and I was just like Richard I
want to speak to you for a bit so he was
a hockey fan and I explained him my
situation given my proposal I mean you
know I have a look at history you think
use I kept is great and he you know
offered to give me a loan to get it get
it done so I was like great you know I
was really excited at this point you
know I started to gain some confidence
again though I was like yeah things
rolling and I had to work again so hard
to start building the company no I have
had no experience in
and I’m trying to start a new company so
just imagine how that is and I was I was
going along and it was one of the
hardest things having rejection you know
along the way but when you have a
passion for something you know rejection
over you rejection overcomes that you
know it’s like gay get rejected but then
you come back you have you come back
even stronger because when I got
rejected
I felt bad like I said I felt really
really sad I felt like crap but I might
come back you know that was the mode I
thought that was the most important part
of the whole experience
you know because if you if your passion
don’t take over and you don’t come back
then you would stay in this position you
know you would stay stuck and think that
okay you know life goes on and you just
have to keep it pushing but you know
that is not it as not the end so it was
a very great experience
and from then I build a company until
now I have three boats like I said but
that’s another story and it’s better to
have it over a cocktail or something
thank you thank you very much
[Applause]
this this is a beautiful boat it’s it’s
a 1999 correct craft Aeronautics
keyboard it’s it’s orange and blue and
filled with very beautiful colors and it
has a very big engine in it and it’s
very fast now I know that this means
this is a lot of you don’t know or it
doesn’t mean anything much to you how
are you probably you don’t understand
why but I I just can’t help myself but
to see something and put boots and
everything that I see so I just had to
do that to get over my nervousness but
anyway who is a Randy Pitts this guy
have now a self driven ambitious young
man has passionate about water sports
and boats and I am also the owner of
three boats and a company also I’ve
never had any experience in business
before I’ve never attended any business
classes never done business in high
school
cut or in college just never done
anything business but I own a business
right so four years ago I I couldn’t
swim I know I’m passionate about water
sports and I have a water sport company
but I couldn’t swim I just got out of
high school and I was pretty much
clueless as to what I wanted to do with
my life so I started college I only
lasted one semester
I shamefully I failed math I was only
doing two subjects fail math but I
managed to pass English but hey now I do
my own bookkeeping you know so anyway I
I so then I I gotta I always loved boats
very passionate about boats so I thought
getting a job as a crew on a ferry would
have been a good idea so I managed to
get one started doing that fell in love
with it decided that okay well I love
boats then I could start you know make a
career of becoming a captain boat
captain so that for a while and then an
opportunity came up opportunity there I
don’t think there are any any bad
opportunities there good opportunities
the good opportunities they they make
you happy temporarily they’re better
opportunities these would lead you to
your passion and then they’re passionate
opportunities these are the ones that
you need to look out for so a passionate
opportunity if it opens your mind it
helps you to think outside the box you
know it gets you overexcited the
passionate opportunities so I the
opportunity that I got was a watersports
job so I got to be a watersports
assistant at a resort so I did that for
a little while and I learned quite a lot
about watersports I was I was I was
actually really impressed and really
excited I it was a new experience for me
so I felt a different kind of happiness
so that’s what led me to you know
putting the
Kru Java side and you know to do the
watersports full-time so did that for a
while again and then realize that the
result was gonna close the season so now
I left my job got this new job and then
the resort is gonna close
so then I started thinking and nothing
came up and one day on a lunch break I
went for a sale and saw some hooby cats
some sailboats oh holy cat as a sailor
would break down a nearby island so I
decided to go for a sail and I saw the
case closed by five minutes fine went
for a sail ended up walking onto the
island saw open building walked into the
building and I was I was really excited
when I got in there because I found a
new passion I love water sports at this
point and then Here I am walking into
this building and I see so many new
activities and so many new equipment for
water sports so I was like wow you know
this is this is really interesting I was
a nice so I walked around building for a
while explored then I went for a walk on
the island
and about two minutes into my walk I
found the office and on the way out was
the human resources manager so I was
like great I asked her for a job like
the result I was walking I was gonna
close anyway so why not so I ended up
getting the job and I started working
there it became a watersports system
they took that on full-time and this
island ended up being Richard Branson’s
private island Mecca
no I this is the first time I’ve ever
been on Necker Island it’s a private
island and I literally just sailed over
there and asked for a job and got it
so things were going well though you
know got the job
you know everything’s nice so at this
point I didn’t know how to swim
still so then that’s when I learned to
swim my neck oh great great great
experience I learned to swim
I learned to Dave scuba dive I actually
learned to scuba dive before I could
swim but anyway I learned to swim and
dive and do like a bunch of kite surfing
and wakeboarding and waterskiing and I
learned a bunch of different activities
so i i i was really happy at this stage
you know i thought this was it like you
know forget about being a bull captain i
found a new passion this is what makes
me happy
this opportunity this was a passionate
opportunity you know because i’m happy
and I feel like I’m I’m in my zone know
and I after two years I realized that
you know I pretty much learned
everything that I could in two years
because I put my mind to it and when you
have a passion for something you know
you don’t you don’t ever limit yourself
you know you always want to keep going
forward and keep learning new stuff and
you know it’s just no limit so I learned
everything in two years and I could from
not being able to swim to you know
becoming even one of the best sailors on
the team and I decided okay well you
know I’m ready for the next step
what is it so I always had passion for
boat like I said and I wanted to start
my own charter company and rental ended
up doing my research and realized that I
had a thousand competitors to start with
between Virgin Gorda and Tortola so
that’s when I said okay well if this is
gonna work then I need to be different
so I said okay I love boats and now I
love water sports – then why not make a
combination and see if is gonna work we
walk
I said okay went back to the drawing
board made a proposal and ended up being
really good and I had a few people read
it and they were like yeah it’s good so
I was ready for the next step at this
moment
so I was walking and talking to a friend
in a boatyard he has his own boat yard
and he I was telling him well you know I
have this this idea I want to start this
company you know but I need a ski boat
it’s not possible without a ski boat and
he was like he had a really nice one in
his yard like when I say really nice
it’s like so nice I was like I started
thinking I was like maybe then I could
try to find the owner for this boat and
see if I can like manage it and you know
see if we could work something out his
exact words to me was like boss get that
out to be ahead cuz it’s not going to
happen
okay fine okay and he was like but I
have I have one in the booth yet it’s
way in the back I haven’t seen it for a
while but you go check it out give me
the directions anyway it ended up being
this one I got it for a dollar
but hey yeah this is it she was already
in the boatyard already unfortunate Oh
only a dollar so in my budget and it
even came with its own trailer so you
know great deal making progress so I got
this board and I’m excited now but then
look at the state of so I honest I
worked as hard as I could I have never
done any work on a boat before even
though it was a crew like I’ve never
done any fiberglass work or any any sort
of boat construction and so I kind of
figured it out I screwed a lot of things
up but anyway so I this was the one time
in my life that I can remember I work
so hard but this was the outcome I I was
I was really happy with this it was a
real load off of me but so the process
for this know I needed to find funding
because this is not cheap so I needed to
find funding I had my good proposal I
went to several banks and I was very
young to get this ski boat to where it
was it cost the boat itself would cost
about $50,000 I probably had about 500
so you know obviously I was rejected by
the banks because then you know is no
connection I they have nothing to hold
onto
like I just have this good proposal but
what you know so anyway I felt I felt
really bad I felt really sad I was like
oh I was almost depressed so I was like
man you know things are going so good
for me I got my boat like you know
anyway I one day I was just on working
back down back to walking you know kind
of put it aside but I know this wasn’t
the end we went back to work one day I
saw Richard Branson walking home he was
walking and I was just like Richard I
want to speak to you for a bit so he was
a hockey fan and I explained him my
situation given my proposal I mean you
know I have a look at history you think
use I kept is great and he you know
offered to give me a loan to get it get
it done so I was like great you know I
was really excited at this point you
know I started to gain some confidence
again though I was like yeah things
rolling and I had to work again so hard
to start building the company no I have
had no experience in
and I’m trying to start a new company so
just imagine how that is and I was I was
going along and it was one of the
hardest things having rejection you know
along the way but when you have a
passion for something you know rejection
over you rejection overcomes that you
know it’s like gay get rejected but then
you come back you have you come back
even stronger because when I got
rejected
I felt bad like I said I felt really
really sad I felt like crap but I might
come back you know that was the mode I
thought that was the most important part
of the whole experience
you know because if you if your passion
don’t take over and you don’t come back
then you would stay in this position you
know you would stay stuck and think that
okay you know life goes on and you just
have to keep it pushing but you know
that is not it as not the end so it was
a very great experience
and from then I build a company until
now I have three boats like I said but
that’s another story and it’s better to
have it over a cocktail or something
thank you thank you very much
[Applause]
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