Luis Felipe Calderón Zavala, son of former Mexican president Felipe Calderón, recounted the beginning of his entrepreneurial journey. According to him, his first business ideas were not about contracts for his buddies, but about selling ties. "What I was doing back then was not contracts for my buddies or anything, it was selling ties," he boasted. Later, after ties, the brother of María Calderón Zavala went into business with Arturo Elías Ayub and got into the sale of digital cameras. Elías Ayub, a businessman and director of the Telmex Telcel Foundation, gave the son of Calderón the cameras to sell and make a profit. "He gave them to me for 700 pesos and whatever I could raise the price to... Done deal. 'Here's your money, and here's my share,'" recalled Luis Felipe Calderón. During an interview with Adela Micha, Luis Felipe Calderón Zavala recounted that his father "always cared for his image" and kept his family away from business. He even said that when he was 18, his parents warned him they would not give him money to go clubbing and remembered the phrase they told him: "You go out with security, but without cash." "In my case, they never gave me a peso for partying. Now it's 'you, your party, you pay for your own drinks,'" he assured. What does Luis Felipe Calderón Zavala do currently? The son of Felipe Calderón is a commercial associate at Liqui Moly, a German brand of lubricants, oils, and other automotive additives. However, his working life began in 2017 when he was a real estate agent, a year before starting his Law degree at the Universidad Panamericana. In 2020, he interned at SLLM, a law firm based in Mexico City. "Since I was little, I was very active, and engineer Carlos Slim is a witness," stated Luis Felipe Calderón Zavala, son of former President Felipe Calderón, who started his first business at the age of 11. His first venture consisted of selling ties to government officials, with his father's permission. Calderón Zavala explained that the idea for the tie business came about because his father wanted his sons, Luis Felipe and María, to lead a normal life and motivated them to earn their own money, as he mentioned in an interview with Adela Micha. Luis Felipe, who revealed that his sister, María Calderón Zavala, is getting married this year, detailed that he sold his father's ties to people who worked at Los Pinos. "I would take his ties and sell them to the Presidential Guard, I would go to the Infantry Battalion, which was right there, to sell them," recalled the now lawyer and businessman. Luis Felipe Calderón's tie business led to Carlos Slim During his time as a tie seller and son of then-President of Mexico, Luis Felipe Calderón Zavala took advantage of all the opportunities that came his way. It was in this way that he had the opportunity to meet successful Mexican businessmen like Carlos Slim, who was aware of his venture. "I admire him (Carlos Slim) a lot, and when there was an event with my father, I would talk to him and tell him about my business. I felt secure because we had assigned personnel due to the nature of my father's job." In that same year, he began his relationship with Liqui Moly.
