Introduction

"I knew when I was 23 that I wanted to be the CEO of Aratas," he says. "Why did I end up doing what I ended up doing in life? It's a very, I was a very highly directed person." His grandparents were immigrants with sixth grade education; his parents were high school educated. He didn't want to be- You could be. We didn't have a family business. So we went to college as a pre-med and lived in poverty during that time.