Knowing that my ancestry had all been quite wealthy and owned their own businesses probably left me with the ambition to replicate what they'd done.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My family were all entrepreneurs, including my parents and grandparents.
I think my ancestors had to be enormously strong emotionally and very courageous.
I built the business exactly the way my mother built and ran her family. I wanted a replication of the big, happy family I grew up in. I wanted happy people having fun.
My parents were entrepreneurs. I grew up believing in the power of innovation.
I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and the way to do that was to find out what made economies work the way they did or fail to work.
Some people in my family achieved a lot, some people inherited a lot. But I turned my back on the whole thing.
I didn't inherit any great success and the problems that came with it, and yet I was able to keep working and supporting myself and later a family. I'm crazy fortunate.
My parents were both entrepreneurs.
My family and I built my whole career from scratch.
They made it to the middle class, my dad working as a bartender and my mother as a cashier and a maid. I didn't inherit any money from them. But I inherited something far better - the real opportunity to accomplish my dreams.