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The Cilantro Diaries

The Cilantro Diaries

by Lorenzo Gomez

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🏆 Bestseller in Business Mentoring & Coaching

About This Book

You don't have to have an MBA to get ahead in business. You don't even need a college degree. All you need is intelligence, drive, creativity, courage, and The Cilantro Diaries. Lorenzo Gomez went from the stockroom of a grocery store to the boardrooms of two private companies without a formal higher education. In his inspiring and humorous true story of hope and accomplishment, he shares the steps he took up the ladder and the guiding principles that got him to the top. The direction and motivation he provides in The Cilantro Diaries will help you find a mentor, build a network, establish a reputation, rise above the competition, and move far beyond entry-level jobs into a profitable and satisfying professional career. Even if you don't have the interest or the means for pursuing a university education, you can be a success. Lorenzo Gomez did it. Now you can do it, too.

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Lorenzo Gomez

Lorenzo Gomez

Lorenzo Gomez III is a San Antonio author, entrepreneur, and public speaker. He spent ten years at Rackspace before helping to lead the city’s growing technology community, and he has served as chairman of Geekdom, San Antonio’s largest coworking space and startup hub, and of the 80/20 Foundation, a philanthropic organization focused on building the local tech ecosystem. He is also a co-founder of Tech Bloc.

He is the author of The Cilantro Diaries: Business Lessons From the Most Unlikely Places, which traces his path from the stockroom of a grocery store to the boardrooms of two private companies without a college degree, and Tafolla Toro: Three Years of Fear.

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