I’ve been reading Peter Venison’s biography of Sol Kerzner, SOL: My Friend and Adversary. Rather, it was about South Africa’s first five-star graded hotel, which was also the first hotel Kerzner developed. Almost everything that later made Kerzner into Kerzner is sitting there in this one small salmon building, in three decisions he made before a brick was laid. Kerzner, who had zero experience in the hospitality sector and hotel development, raised the money the way a good accountant would. In one trip, Kerzner studied The Fontainebleau’s owner, Ben Novack and the blueprint for how to run this luxury resort hotel.