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Nathan North, ‘Eurobuild CEE’: How did you start out in the business? Eugene Golub, the founder and chairman of the board of Golub & Company: It was just serendipitous that I became involved in real estate. When I was in my early 20s a school friend and I would talk about starting a business together. From high school on I had always been involved with sales and I had jobs selling everything from women’s shoes, working in a menswear store and then on to being a car salesman. My friend and I decided that we should try working in the real estate industry. At the time the State of Illinois required a broker’s licence in order for someone to sell real estate. I went to night school and was successful in qualifying for the broker’s licence. From then on my partner and I became somewhat successful in the commercial brokerage and management business. As the timing in the 60s seemed right, we decided to start a development business along with our leasing and