Adam Hasler looks like a footloose millennial. He's worked as a model, waited tables, and lived all over the world. But at 28, there's more to his résumé than meets the eye.
He earned a dual degree in history and international relations at American University. After graduating, he and two partners--boosted by a $10,000 stake from his parents and an investment from a local restaurateur--took over the coffeehouse where he had worked since age 19: Modern Times, inside the Politics and Prose bookstore, a beloved Washington, D.C., institution. "I was 22 and naive," he says now. "We got our asses handed to us." Still, working 16-hour days for weeks on end, "living on cookies and beer," Hasler and his partners increased the shop's revenue in three years from less than $200,000 to $500,000.
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