Viewer discretion is advised. This episode includes conversations about drug dealing, addiction, recovery, family illness, and difficult life choices.
In this episode of Hidden Foundations, Kendall sits down with Victor Raymond-Tabaac, a Philadelphia-based serial entrepreneur, to unpack the early experiences that shaped his risk tolerance, work ethic, and drive to build. Victor shares how his first business started at 13 with a hot dog cart, how selling weed in high school taught him hard lessons about risk, leadership, pricing, and consequences, and how addiction later collided with family responsibility and entrepreneurship.
The conversation also explores his father’s influence, building an AWS-focused company from five people to 275, recovery, parenting as a sober father, the Lighthouse in Kensington, youth programming, nonprofit transparency, AI-proof careers, and why staying sober is the foundation that makes everything else possible.
Chapters
00:00 Cold Open: Business, Recovery, and Kensington
00:46 Meet Victor Raymond-Tabaac
01:03 Entrepreneur Since Age 13
03:08 Selling Weed, Risk, and Getting Caught
11:17 Scaling an AWS Business to 275 People
17:26 Addiction, Family Business, and Recovery
28:11 Giving Back Through the Lighthouse
45:24 Leadership, Sales, AI, and Staying Sober
