Styling hair and robbing banks: The life lessons of K.J. Hughes’ parents

Entrepreneurship runs through K.J. Hughes’ veins. 
While Hughes has a MBA from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, he was making good money from an early age.

At 15, he started hosting basement parties at his friend’s house while his mom was out of town, which would earn him between $1,000 and $1,500 a week.

“One of my boys was a deejay. Another one of my boys was a photographer, and like you know, we had this whole little enterprise,” Hughes said.

During a recent interview on Founding DC...