Growing up around his family’s jewelry business in Sydney, Australia gave Nick Molnar an early interest in entrepreneurship.
“My parents being retail entrepreneurs always taught me the intricacies of how to trade, how to run in retail,” 35-year-old tells CNBC Make It. “So I do really feel retail is in my blood.”
As a teenager, he started selling jewelry from his family’s company on eBay and eventually on a standalone website for the business. But after college, Molnar wasn’t sold on entrepreneurship as his career path.
“The universe told me that I should get a finance job given my commerce degree, my business degree, and so I really tried to make that a reality,” he says.
His jewelry business became something of an obstacle in that pursuit, however. Molnar says he would apply for investment banking jobs and companies would see his jewelry business listed on his CV and ask why he would bother doing anything else.
