To take risks, even when the risk means risking everything. To believe in God and to believe in yourself. What I have built thus far, I built from values and opportunities that are uniquely American.Īlong the way I’ve learned what it is to be American. Only in the American Experiment, a middle-class Brazilian kid could show up and in a little over ten years deploy over nine-figures and indirectly help create thousands of jobs. And not just me, but in all the people who I’ve leaned on and learned from to make it here. President Lincoln said, “My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.” His dream is fulfilled in me. It is my belief that God created this land as the land of opportunity and entrepreneurship – and I am grateful to God for it. Why America, though? This land of opportunity does not exist anywhere else. I’ve lived here 11 years as an alien - a third of my life. That came two years later in 2012 when I first applied for a green card. I hadn’t even reached the status of alien yet. I was just another kid riding on a temporary visa. I stepped off the plane naively not realizing I knew no one in the country. I arrived in the USA on December 28th, 2010. The journey has been a long one - almost half of my life. I don’t think I would have thought so much about it if it hadn’t been such a journey to be one of the privileged few who call this country home. For most it’s a given, and for some, it might be an afterthought. I imagine very few Americans give much thought to their citizenship. As of Tuesday, July 18th, I am a citizen of the United States of America.
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