my brother what's up bro we're recording just so you know i'm ready we're just jumping in live

i love it you don't have time to waste man it's very good to see you great to see you my friend

listen for the people in my audience who uh who might not know you which i think is very few

can you just give a

little understanding of who you are? Yeah. I am, I mean, I think at the end of the day,

I'm an entrepreneur. Obviously, entrepreneurs have become much more known in the last 15 years than

when I was growing up. My path to entrepreneurship was

being born in the Soviet Union and coming to America when I was a kid growing up in Queens

and Edison, New Jersey, predominantly in Edison, New Jersey, in the 80s, lemonade stands,

you know, shoveling snow, very, very, very entrepreneurial kid,

very bad at school by the time I was in fourth grade. I was good up to fourth grade.

I got A's and B's in first, second and third.

And fell in love with baseball cards, like many kids my age in the 80s and early 90s, it was a big trend.

Really learned a lot about business through doing baseball card shows.

And then my father lived his American dream through being a stock boy in a liquor store

to eventually owning a liquor store.

And I started working there when I was 14. And that was a really

life-changing experience. You know, grew up in a son of an immigrant family merchant kind of life

and was learned a lot more about interacting with customers and marketing and selling stuff and

really became infatu interacting with customers and marketing and selling stuff and really became

infatuated with wine and collecting of wine like I did with sports cards. And then in 1997,

launched one of the first e-commerce wine businesses in America. And that really changed the

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