I came to America at 11 years old, not speaking the language, with parents who left everything behind for a shot at something better.
By 12, I was working in a jewelry store after school. Sweeping floors, polishing cases, learning how a business actually runs. I didn’t know it then, but that store was my first classroom in the only subject that mattered: opportunity.
At 17, I started a business from my parents’ basement. No connections, no capital, no fancy degree. Just a kid with an internet connection in a country that didn’t ask where I came from, only what I could build.
That’s the thing about America that people who were born here sometimes forget. In most of the world, your ceiling is set the day you’re born. Here, the ceiling is a suggestion.
Every company I’ve built, every job I’ve created, every risk I’ve been able to take exists because this country made one simple bet: give people freedom and get out of their way.
I’ve been paying that bet back ever since. Gladly.
Happy 4th of July. To the country that took in an 11-year-old immigrant kid and asked for nothing but effort in return.
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In honor of my mother, Flora Klein, who at 14 years of age was in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany, I will be at the White House July 4th honoring our veterans from WW II July 4th. Alongside me, will be 10 surviving WW II veterans. God bless our veterans.
Dear Republicans, stop mass texting my phone for donations. You won't get squat from me until you pass the Save America Act and start putting American citizens first instead of your donors.
@pitbullpatriot3 They are adopted by American parents. They get citizenship based on that. Birthright citizenship never applied to people born in other countries.
@ThrillaRilla369 Nest years of my life have been the thirteen years I spent without a ‘job’ and responsible for the raising of my kids. I would love those 13 years over in a heartbeat. I loved being home and never sending my kids to daycare.