Les Gold knows the value of thoroughly learning your profession before opening your own shop. Star of the hit cable TV show “Hardcore Pawn,” which quickly catapulted him to national fame, he is anything but an overnight sensation when it comes to business.
Gold began working in his grandfather’s Detroit-based pawnshop, Sam’s Loans, as a child and made his first sale at just 7 years old. He spent 24 years learning the pawnbroker business before he stepped out and opened his own shop.