Before becoming CEO of $79 billion Wall Street giant Apollo, Marc Rowan worked at a party store, valet lot, and ‘the best kosher caterer’

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Long before they were running multibillion-dollar companies and joining the ranks of the ultrawealthy, some of the business world’s top players were flipping burgers and working the front desk. Marc Rowan, the cofounder and CEO of Apollo Global Management, juggled a slew of hospitality and retail gigs before leading the $79 billion investment giant.

“I’ve had a lot of different jobs,” Rowan recently told iCapital CEO Lawrence Calcano during a podcast. “I was a valet parker at the Diplomat Hotel—now, the Shell Bay Golf Club. I would drive cars between New York and Florida for snowbirds, transporting their cars for the winter.”

Rowan grew up bouncing back and forth between Florida and New York, attending high school in the sunshine state’s coastal town of Hollywood. Alongside driving cars up and down the eastern coast, he also spent his early working years manning a party goods store and........

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