Fairweather: Her 14-year-old son earns spending money by scraping real estate data
Brittany Fairweather · Her 14-Year-Old Was Pitching Clients at a Conference Without Her · Feb 6, 2024 · at 14:21
Brittany Fairweather, Chief Business Development Officer at TRX Capital, discusses how she involves her children in practical business operations and teaches them real-world work skills.
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“I when my son, my oldest is 14, when he wants to earn extra money, when he wants to get a new snowboarding pass or whatever it is that he happens to want, that's not A birthday or Christmas or whatever, you know, I make them work for it. And so I have an extra computer and if I have deals that come in, I have logged them into our CRM, taught him how to do the data entry and put things together, taught him how to look up, you know, Google Zillow mine what he can from public records online and fill in spreadsheets for me.”
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