How Rafa Nieves, a former pro baseball player, used grief and the MTV VMAs to push him to become a successful Miami nightclub promoter and MLB agent.
This article is part of Bísness School, a series that highlights one of the fastest-growing groups of entrepreneurs in the United States, Latinos. You can hear or watch the full conversation with Rafa Nieves below."All I wanted was to play baseball," Nieves said."I was just excited. This was a dream come true. Yeah, there's some money involved, but, you know, coming from Venezuela, a third world country, at 16 years old, like, any sum of money is life-changing money.
"I totally lost focus on my priorities, lost focus on on my goals," said Nieves."It was a perfect storm. I lost the motivation, the focus, everything. And then I got hurt, and then the team released me."
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