Eliot Garza, owner of the glitzy and glossy NSIDE magazines, is a lot like the young, pre-doom Jay Gatsby.
For one thing, Garza has the markings of a self-made man. He mostly reads self-help books and business magazines; he's a sharp, fastidious dresser, and he works out; he punctuates our nearly two-hour interview with uplifting life and business lessons he's picked since landing in San Antonio in the late 1990s.
Soft-spoken, short, and solidly built, he's also a glamorous mystery to onlookers, which inevitably leads to exaggeration.
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