From Losing Millions to a Second Chance A Mother's Perspective

And the company eventually failed. And I had to call my mother, and my mother was a Russian immigrant, and English was never her first language. So every time I spoke to her, there was a pause as she translated in her head. And I said, Mom, I lost $35 million. Pause, translate. And she said, where'd you put it? I said, no, no, no, I lost it. It's all gone. Pause, longer pause. And then she said, oh, oh my gosh, the country we came from is gone. There's nowhere for us to go. And then she got smarter, and then she said, and our name is blank. We can't even change it. I said, no, no, no. The people who gave me the money, the reason I'm calling you, just gave me another $12 million to do my next startup.

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