From Being a DJ to a Unicorn Founder: Career Principles of Robert Reffkin

Adversity hones leadership capability

Robert Reffkin was raised by a single mother who was a Jewish immigrant to United States. As soon as his grandparents discovered that he was black, they cut ties with his mother. His father was absent from his life and had died homeless.

Passion for music led him to DJing in high school. Robert managed to launch a reasonably successful DJ business back …