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Champions for Change Season 3 comes back with a great guest with an incredible life journey. If you are an aspiring entrepreneur and have always wondered how successful business leaders make it, you are not going to want to miss this podcast. JP Dominguez and George Lopez ask Alan all the important entrepreneurial questions, as well as the outlook for the upcoming Dodgers season. Alan Smolinisky is a part owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, entrepreneur, value investor, and social impact philanthropist. The son of immigrant parents who came to the US from Argentina, Alan has spent his life pursuing a mission of successful investing, constant learning and fostering in others the dignity-conferring quality of hard work. On this podcast Alan shares about how his passion for business began at a very young age, when he sold lollipops at school and set up lemonade stands on weekends. Alan read every business book he could find and studied the business pages of newspapers. His first job, at age 15, was making pizzas at Domino’s Pizza (he started the same day his work permit came through). In 1998, Alan enrolled in the University of Southern California and, in doing so, became part of the first generation in his family to attend college. At USC, Alan, just 19 years old, launched the business that would change his life. In the summer of 2008, just before the financial crisis, Alan and Brian sold the student housing business for $205 million, marking their first major business success. Today, Alan and his business partner have approximately $1 billion in assets, and own and operate businesses in sectors ranging from equipment leasing, news media, government subsidized housing, oil and gas, commercial and residential real estate and publicly traded securities.In 2019, Alan fulfilled a lifelong dream and became a part owner of his beloved LA Dodgers. In a TIME Magazine piece written by Alan, he described his purchase as a way to honor his immigrant father's love of America and baseball.