Whatever Works: Where Product is King

He told his mother he was thinking of quitting Burlington to “bum around” for a couple of years until he figured out what he really wanted to do. “Not a smart thing to say,” Brown remembers. “In those days you didn’t tell a Jewish mother you wanted to be a bum—unless you spelled it ‘doctor’ or ‘lawyer.’ So after getting ‘the look,’ I agreed to go see my big brother Steve, for some sensible career advice.