"I lived in New York for five months," said Rubin. "It was too cold there. I only knew one guy in L.A., but I went there. This guy said that he knows somebody in Beverly Hills who needed someone to install tile. He said that there are three nice condos, but [the installers] did a terrible job. He could pay $100 a day. I said that's a good thing for me, because I was only making $50 [a day] back then."
Rubin explained that he called the owner of the condos, and made an appointment to take a look at the job. "I didn't know much about it really, but I had the guts," he said. "I really had no idea how to even estimate the job. So I walked through the three units and measured and acted like I knew everything, when I really knew nothing."