An Unlikely Empire | J.W. Marriott

The world s largest hotel company spent its first 30 years without a hotel. It started as a root beer stand in 1927. The first room didn t open until 1957. The man behind it was J. Willard Marriott. In this episode of Outliers, we explore how Marriott turned one root beer stand into a hotel empire, The post An Unlikely Empire | J.W. Marriott appeared first on Farnam Street .