I was raised on a family farm in western Minnesota. So I didn't have the background to prepare me for this business life.
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My family never had a business background. We are artistes.
My early business ventures included growing Christmas trees and breeding birds.
I wanted to build businesses from the time I was little.
I grew up in rural Arizona. My dad ran a general store.
Growing up in a rural setting in Minnesota, I was raised with the outdoors and a sense of adventure.
My parents owned a plants nursery. We all grew up growing things and planting things and selling things, and I also managed landscape crews.
I worked on a farm for a little bit.
I grew up in Southern Oregon. My father was a sawmill worker and a logger, and his job put food on the table.
Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese making. But I think I learned from my father the unspoken business language or instincts that go back thousands of years.
My family was in two businesses - they were in the textile business, and they were in the candy business. The conversations around the dinner table were all about the factory floor and how many machines were running and what was happening in the business. I grew up very engaged in manufacturing and as part of a family business.