First and foremost, Dogfish Head cofounder Sam Calagione is a storyteller.
Not just because the Lewes-based entrepreneur gives a great talk, like the GRIT Talk he delivered on Tuesday at the Mill’s Theatre N at, but also because it was the career he first chose to pursue.
Calagione studied creative writing on the graduate level at Columbia University — despite lacking a high school diploma due to an expulsion his senior year from a Massachusetts prep school.
“I’m one of a small elite group of human beings who got to graduate from college but never actually got a high school diploma,” he said, answering the first of seven questions designed to bring out the common stories of Delaware business leaders, including overcoming failures on the path to success.
Calagione ultimately stopped going to classes at Columbia when he realized that he really wanted to use his creative writing skills to …