Matthew Polianites, the 19-year-old owner of the Boardwalk Skate Shop in Boston’s Burlington Mall has a optimistic take on the current economic downturn, according to a story in the Boston Globe.
“The recession isn’t stopping people from skateboarding,” Polianites, a sophomore at Suffolk University Sawyer Business School, said.
Polianites, who opened the shop after the skateboard mall kiosk he worked in closed, decided he didn’t want to be poor college student. He wanted to “graduate with a store franchise, not a heap of credit-card debt.”
“You try a trick, you fall, you get back up,” Polianites said. “With skateboarding, everything you do is a risk. Same as in the business world.”
[Link: Boston.com]
