Starting a business takes dedication. Making it successful requires you to “multiply that by infinity,” says billionaire Raising Cane’s co-founder and CEO Todd Graves.
Graves would know: He worked 90-hour weeks at a California oil refinery and fished for salmon in Alaska just to get his Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based chicken finger restaurant chain off the ground in 1996. Nearly three decades later, Raising Cane’s has more than 800 locations worldwide and could finish this year with nearly $5 billion in sales, a spokesperson says.
“I can’t tell you how many 15, 16-hour days I’ve worked in a row,” Graves, 52, tells CNBC Make It. “I had to miss a lot of stuff.”
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At times, Graves worked so much that his wife would bring their two kids to his office for dinner and playtime — after which he’d go back to work, he says. Today, he runs …