My early business ventures included growing Christmas trees and breeding birds.
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I wanted to build businesses from the time I was little.
I was raised on a family farm in western Minnesota. So I didn't have the background to prepare me for this business life.
My parents owned a plants nursery. We all grew up growing things and planting things and selling things, and I also managed landscape crews.
My first business deal was with my mother. I invested in chickens. I sold the eggs to my mother.
Although they arrived in New York penniless, my parents scraped together enough savings to establish the first of several small businesses just after I was born.
From a relatively early age I got interested in business.
Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just for Christmas.
When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn't even have a Christmas tree.
My background is in biology. Before getting into the family business, I worked at the Predatory Bird Research Group at the University of California at Santa Cruz, fundraising for them.
I grew up on a farm - it was a lovely life; we'd make tree houses all day - and my parents worked from home.
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