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Josh Hochschuler

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“Way I like to describe it is there was this huge influx of Italians who came to Argentina and they really clung to a lot of what they loved about their own culture and ways of life and it influenced the language a lot of the slang is Italian a lot of the tango has Italian influence in the food everywhere and they really took so much pride that and they didn't look to change things because this to them was like something that beckoned back to the old country so they wanted to keep it the way it was so the way I describe is that Argentinian gelato is the way Italian gelato used to be a very long time ago 100 years ago”
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“Yes, and we spoke in Spanish. And then, you know, just day in and day out at work when I went out to eat, actually I'd go home and my head would hurt because I would be trying so hard to learn how to communicate. And there would be times when you just don't have the words or know how to say things. And then over time, oddly enough, I started to gain a lot of vocabulary in the working world. So like in the finance world, I knew a lot of terms that a lot of people might not know otherwise.”
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“It was a process probably within a year. Now I didn't have any English speaking friends, so all my friends that I made spoke Spanish, I started dating a girl. So that's very helpful”
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“So, at first, I was for two years in strategic planning, and they were at the time growing branches of the bank. There was a really good year in Argentina, and business was booming. So they wanted me to do Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoints and stay there all night printing things on the printer and then collating them and then stapling them. And then so I kind of did the lowest level of work for that office. And because I spoke English, there was a lot of presentations that had to be made in English to corporate from Boston. And so they liked having me there to help the C-suite of Argentina to go through the English parts of it. So they all got to know me.”
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“Banks at financial institutions. But the biggest problem I always had was language, and it was always frustrating for them because I didn't speak Spanish. So that made it, I kept getting no's. Until one day there was a girl who was teaching at Berlitz, and she said to me, you know, my father had kind of a similar story to yours. He had gone to the States looking for work and ended up working for Bank of Boston. Go meet with him. I'll get you a meeting with him. So I went, I gave him my resume. I explained to him what I wanted to do. So he said to me, I'm going to give you a 30-day contract, which I still have. And of course, it was back then it was printed a piece of paper. And I'm going to give you a Spanish tutor. And if you do a great job for 30 days, I'll give you 30 more. And so that was the beginning of my career at Bank of Boston.”
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“Was so whenever I had free time, I'd put on a suit and tie, and I would go knocking on doors downtown and ask for the Human Resources Department and give them my resume.”
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“So, I mean, the story's quite long, but just to kind of make it not too long, I become friendly with a taxi driver who spoke English. And he knew of an apartment where the person they were renovating it. And so I said, look, I'll make a deal. I will pay for two or three months' worth of rent up front so they can finish the paint and whatever they have to do. But I get to sleep there every day while they're doing the work. So I would sleep on the floor. I used like a sweatshirt as a pillow. And they were finishing the construction of the apartment while I lived there. It didn't bother me very much. And I got to have a place where I could sleep and make food. So it worked out.”
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“Yeah, I was pretty bold. I was a little bit at the point where I needed money no matter what. So I started teaching English. And I did that to make money. It was very little money.”
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“And they said, everyone's in Uruguay right now. The country's closed down. So you pick the wrong day to arrive. You should have come two weeks ago.”
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“1996, and I go up to an information booth, and I say to the young lady behind the booth, I say, hi, I've come here now and I'd like to live here. What do you suggest I do? And she just looked at me and she goes, hold on a second. And she starts calling over to the other information booths and gets everyone to come. She goes, just say again what you just said to me. And I said, I want to live here. I don't know what I should be doing. And they all just start dying, laughing, that I just land there and I'm in the airport and I'm trying to figure out what to do next. So they told me everyone's on vacation down there. Everyone takes a month or even two months off, which is January and February, which is the summer.”
2025-06-30 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Talenti: Josh Hochschuler · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was getting close to Christmas time, and I was completely out of money. Didn't know how to make payroll. And so I remember I called a meeting and I said, I'm going to go to the bank and I'm going to try to sign and get more money from the bank to pay you what I owe you. But if you leave in the meantime, I can't even service the customers I have and I'll lose them as well. So they spoke amongst themselves and then came back and said, we trust you. We're going to stay, go find the money. And I said, you got it.”
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