Vince McMahon met his father, Vince McMahon Sr., for the first time when he was twelve, and became interested in his father’s job as owner and promoter of the Capital Wrestling Corporation. In 1982 Vince would take over his father’s duties as owner and promoter of the now named World Wrestling Federation, and would succeed in taking the company national. Nearly forty years later McMahon remains in charge of the now WWE, taking the company public and turning it into a true global promotion.