Interview 34507 – Caption Index: 300
But you expanded tother animals. Why Not yet?… Read More
But you expanded tother animals. Why Not yet?… Read More
I’m, I’m raising money now to do that. Yeah, But you, have you expanded to Rhinoceros?… Read More
Oh no, they came at the same time. Ah, – I, I, I didn’t, I didn’t copy giraffe manner. I, I want, I rhinos came in the same week as the, as I wanted to, I wanted to do rhinos, giraffes, and cheetahs. And I didn’t do the cheetahs because… Read More
They, they love giraffes and they don’t have time to go to Africa. They know they can’t feed ’em in Africa unless they go to the Giraff Manor place, which is really nice. But I think then my model worked, but it was all, it, it, it was, it was… Read More
They didn’t know. That just doesn’t happen. And so TikTok saved my butt, even though I’m not a fan of TikTok. And, and they’re, you know, it’s, it is built up since then. We’re not sold out now. ’cause we built four villas now. And we have, so we have… Read More
Ji, we’re very happy for you, but could you explain what just happened?… Read More
And then the kicker was, my bank account went from $10,000 to over a million dollars in, in a month. So the bank calls me up and said, Mr. Read More
But you e everything came into the bank account. And then I opened up, I said, well, let’s increase the price and open up 20, 23. Three about three weeks that took. So now I’m booked for, for the next two years. Now TikTok first of all, is not the… Read More
He’s, he’s in a bomb shelter texting his friend. They heard about Long Neck Matter. So TikTok, this is January of the next year. It went viral. And we booked out the Giraff suite. It’s two night minimum for that whole year. Every single night. Bam, bam, bam. And you… Read More
And then there’s a little door under supervision. You open it up and the tongue comes in the living room and you feed ’em. And then it ends with them on the, on the catwalk with the whole giraffe right there. It went viral on TikTok. And when I say… Read More
So it, it starts, you walk in, there’s giraffes looking right at you, right?… Read More
And, and, and his friend wrote him and said, Hey, have you heard about this place?… Read More
And I’m down to not a lot of money left, you know, in my savings. I didn’t ask for any help. And then, and then a couple came in and did this film, eight seconds or 10 seconds. And they put it on their website, which had a lot more… Read More
So I did that in, in 2001. Again, this is just me, no partners, just my money. I had architect friends that helped me a lot. I had a lot of help along the way. I hired just two keepers at that point and me. And so we opened up… Read More
Well, I was, if you know Rick Bargi, I’m not gonna retire until I die. You know, it’s just not in my DNA. And I was young enough, and I had been thinking about this for a long time, and we had the right piece of property to do it. Read More
People would pay money for it if it was done in the right way. And I started with the, with the bo, with the draft barn. So I built a much bigger draft barn than I designed a Disney or a in Miami, because I learned that, yeah, you, you… Read More
What is it And, and how did it come into being and what was your philosophy?… Read More
And number one, can you kind of go through why did you not retire?… Read More
Why did you open up this, this new facility?… Read More
He goes, well, I heard the door close. No, you wait till I tell you that. I mean, you gotta be, sometimes it’s just luck. Now you, you, in, in 2015, you leave Houston Zoo, you do some zoo consulting, but ultimately in 2019, you open up your own place. Read More