On today's episode, we have a data scientist who developed an algorithm to monitor the authenticity of Amazon customer reviews.

And he made the Forbes magazine Top 30 Under 30 list.

How cool is that?

Pretty cool, I think. Hello, everybody, and welcome to another episode of the serious sellers podcast by Helium 10.

I am your host, Bradley Sutton, and this is the show.

That's a completely BS-free, unscripted, and unrehearsed, organic conversation about serious strategies for serious sellers of any level in the e-commerce world. I've got a guest today, Saoud. Saoud, how's it going, man? Oh, I'm doing well. How are you? I'm doing just Ducky. I say that every now and then. I think that's my dad's phrase, but people get a kick out of it.

So anyways, I'm doing delightful. That's my other thing I say. But anyways, I want to just start off really quick. You know, if somebody Googles your name, you're like on some Forbes list of 30 under 30. So like it's 30 under 30 what? What was that? Oh, it was two categories, but it was in the e-commerce and retail category that I was selected for the 30-under-30 list.

Like the most influential people or something like that? Is there an actual title for it?

Yes, for the year.

Okay, cool, cool, cool. So, you know, we're in the, we're in the midst of somebody semi-famous over here. I like it, but it's with, it's rightfully so, and it's not from your music career, which we'll get into it in a little bit, but, but before we get into what you actually do, what I like doing when I start these episodes is I like getting everybody's kind of backstory because we're all, you know, whether we're Amazon sellers or we're somehow related to e-commerce,

there's no two of us who started off the same.

So, you know, sometimes people who are trying to think about e-commerce, like, you know what,

these people were groomed for e-commerce or they've got this natural thing.

But what I try and show is like every single one of our guest has a completely different background. And I'm sure a background that maybe some people here might relate to. And they're like, wait a minute. Wow. They have this different background, but we all kind of end up in the same e-commerce ecosystem. So let's take it back. Where did you grow up? I know you're in Jersey now.

Is that where you grew up? No, actually. So I grew up in Kuwait. My dad is from Kuwait and my mom

is from Poland. So I split my time up in both countries growing up. Hold on, hold on. How did they meet?

How does somebody from Kuwait meet somebody from Poland?

So my dad was an exchange university student and he met my mom in a university in Poland.

And that's how they're... Wow.

Basically.

That is pretty cool. That's pretty cool.

Okay. So then they moved to Kuwait?

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