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Tell me a little bit of your back story and how you grew up?   I was  born in the Republic of Georgia and our family immigrated to Dallas, Texas when I was 8 years old. We left the country with nothing more than the clothes on our back in 2000. During that time, the country was in bad shape as the government slowly lost its power to corruption. My grandfather was heavily involved in creating the country’s banking infrastructure from the ground up after the Soviet Union fell apart and when Georgia became a republic in the early 90s. This was a period of time when our family was living comfortably but soon after the government became corrupted, we escaped to the United States. From the day we arrived in the U.S., my parents and grandparents worked hard to put food on the table. Witnessing this effort inspired my sister and I to attend college in hopes of creating a bountiful life in our new home. My first job was in a warehouse when I was in 8th grade, I worked alo...