Decades before Kris Jenner became the “Momager” of the Kardashian-Jenner clan, she herself taught an early lesson in business negotiation while working as on-board agent.
During an appearance in the April 9 episode of the Podcast “The Burnnets” – organized by Bill Gates’s daughter, Phoebe Gates, and his trading partner, Sophia Kianni – Jenner thought about her brief passage for American Airlines in the 70s.
“Each lesson I have learned that I really appreciate, I think I learned this year and a half or two years from being a on -board agent,” Jenner told Gates and Kianni.
It all started when Jenner, then a new on -board agent, did not receive the flight route she wanted.
“I really hoped Los Angeles,” said Jenner. “And they watched me in a way:” You never go to Los Angeles. It would take you for years to be able to build this kind of seniority where you can go to Los Angeles. “”
But instead of accepting rejection, Jenner took matters into his own hands.
“I thought,” OK, there is another way to get around this “, said Jenner.
She started talking to different people of the company to discover how she could get a place on the flight routes she wanted.
“So, I just went randomly into the planning office – that no one dares to do in the 70s – and I said:” Listen, I have a problem. This is what I need, and that’s what I know you have the power to do. How can we meet in the middle? What can I do to do this? “” Said Jenner, recalling the incident.
Presenting yourself at the office worked: the management has rather offered him a place on the list of substitutes. If someone called sick, she would be the only one to replace them on these flights, Jenner said.
“And I understood how to make the system work for me in the best way, because then I had, perhaps once or twice, entered the planning room with brownies,” she said.
Jenner said that experience had taught him to pivot and not accept the first answer that someone gave him.
“It was one of the first things I negotiated for myself,” she said.
Since then, Jenner has become a businesswoman and a reality TV star.
She catapulted her family into the Superstard by launching the reality series of her family, “Follow the Kardashians“In 2007. The show ended in 2021 after 20 seasons.
A year later, the family announced their return to reality TV for the Hulu series “The Kardashians”. The show is now in its sixth season.
Aside from reality TV, Jenner also manages the career of his famous daughters – Kourtney Kardashian, Kim Kardashian, Khloe Kardashian, Kendall Jenner and Kylie Jenner.
In 2022, Jenner said Forbes She takes a 10% reduction in everything her children earn through television and other companies.
The representatives of Jenner and American Airlines did not immediately respond to requests for comments sent by Business Insider.
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