Lorenzo Fertitta on running casino at 24 

Best interviewer ever, talk 10% listen 90% 👌🏽. Keep it up Graham

"not a traditional family business" ..you got that right

"It was really a family business" Yeah, we know Lorenzo

His voice like this at 24 must have been eerie At 50 its a great voice

What an amazing interview! Graham asked all the right questions. Always wanted to get a deeper insight on this ultra-successful but otherwise low-key businessman. Lorenzo's a Don.

Crazy how some people have fathers that leave their kids before even getting to know them .. and you have fathers like the fertitta brothers who’s father was already thinking for them before they were even born

Let's not kid outselves. Guy comes from a family of mobsters.

This dude is like the Michael Corleone gone right

Gotta love a success story about how a rich kid made a boat load of money. Lol I do like Lorenzo though. At least he’s not snobby about it

Huge respect for Lorenzo, regardless if his father was the one who gave him these opportunities, he’s the one who worked hard and made something of those opportunities. I see so many “haters” in these comments attacking him and calling him spoiled and it makes no sense to me. In fact, he would be more spoiled if he didn’t take those opportunities just like all the people from wealthy families who end up blowing their parents money and doing nothing with their lives. Someone who makes the most of what their given and works hard even though they don’t have to is quite the opposite of spoiled.

If Pimping is servicing the community in LV, then this man is a saint.

LOL! This is the PG version of events... Yup, a plucky young Italian man just came up from Galvestan with a $1 in his pocket, became a bellboy at a local casino, and bingo-bango builds his OWN CASINO in a few years! Just like that! That's how the gambling business works, folks. Nothing more to see here! The incredible balls on Lorenzo to lie like this... You'd have to be a complete dew-eyed innocent, like Graham maybe, to believe this telling of the story.

I designed the HVAC on one of the Fertitta's houses around 1995-1996. I didn't know who they were at the time.

completely mob connected

Mafia had the foresight to become legit. Others stay in filth forever

I was surfing Lahaina harbor (Maui, Hawaii), today and saw the yacht "Lonian" and the shadow boat "Hodor" anchored offshore. We don't see yachts like this in Maui much, so I decided to investigate it further. Who is the owner Lorenzo Fertitta, I asked myself. I was pleasantly surprised to see on these video interviews, that he appears to be a great guy. Very personable, hard working, intelligent and down-to-earth. Not at all like I thought a billionaire would be like. I really appreciate a person that takes stock in their upbringing / family. Lorenzo's strong work ethic comes from watching and participating, in his father's humble beginnings in business.

I never knew any of this... Great interview as usual

the italian mob was connected so much with vegas casinos in the 60s' and 70s and lorenzo is italian see the connection???

Don Corleone.

Funny all the comments on “Mob business “ . Try run a multimillion company with thousands of employees and add to the stress the fact that if you do not respond to the Mob they would send you to sleep. It’s insane .

They were connected to the Maceo Bros in Galveston Tx. Who were gangsters.

Nice answer. He went out to las vegas, ya da ya da ya da, he had the opportunity to invest in a casino from the ground up. Such bs. People dont get those opportunities unless they are tied in , and the fertitta family form galveston was very much tied in .

The Don!

thats how it is you need to suround you with smart people to make good decisions

Mob helped him

everyone schedules their classes monday through Thursday lol

Started a lowly bell boy, and then owned a casino lol, yeah right. We all know where the money came from.

The fertittas have been rich since the yr 1900. This present day lorenzo and his brother and cousins all billionaires. Whatta family!

OG

Crazy to see now what this family has evolved with and the sale with the UFC. 1990's money was easy to make. Tell people what they want to hear and convince that there is nobody else. Regardless if you can do it or not, doesn't mater, there legit isn't anybody else lol. Keep the connections close, they're your life lines.

Is this the guy that basically founded the UFC ?

Who gives af if his pops had mob ties. Lorenzo and Frank have been nothing but class. They know how to treat people and no one that deals with them from bell hops to fighters has a bad word to say. I'll take them over some clean as a whistle stuck up billionaire snob that treats non richies as peasants

River boat casino in Missouri … isn’t that Ozark to a tee

no mention of being neck deep in mafia connections and dirty money

let's tell it like it is....you pop was in the mob

What a life 👌🏼

Instead of attacking the man learn something.

Gambling destroys lives ...

Mafia money

I want to believe he wasn't mobbed up but I seriously doubt it. Good for them though!

obviously growing so rapidly in Vegas at that time he was mobbed up.

His dad is making 75 cnts a hr...and oh ok

[Godfather theme intensifies]

Lorenzo The GOAT

he Italian so.... mobb ties

#mobbedup

I am very jelous of their mega yachts....

Why lie ? u should be proud of your heritage your dad was in the Mob non wrong with it most of the ultra rich families money have come from underhanded and illegal business come on Lorenzo if u were more truthful I'd respect u but come on

Mafia family

How did he make that happen😂 Let's guess!😂 Anybody have any guesses

lorenzo gambini

Everything with tony is secret this omertà that

Gram acts questions like someones tickling his bum

Why they sold the ufc

Graham's pink shirt is distracting

i wish my daddy gave me everything.

Daddy's blue eyed boy Got everything a spoilt brat could ask for