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Brazil. They started getting calls from
around the world and the organiza-
tion began to grown.
When I was in the fourth grade, I de-
cided I wanted to be a judge. I gradu-
ated college as Magna cum laude and
completed law school passing the bar
at 23 years old. I then did corporate
law at a firm called CTB inc. in In-
diana. The company was later bought
out by Warren Buffet. I then thought
that mergers and acquisitions was
one of the most interesting things
I had seen so I returned to school
to get my PhD in finance. As I had
earned two doctorates before the age
of 30, I decided to give back. After
teaching as a professor for five years
in California, I joined [my] father at
Project Cure 20 years ago, and I have
been running it ever since.
In Houston alone we have 55,000
square feet and managing the lo-
gistics is a surmountable feat. When
I took over, our output was around
$100,000 in supplies, but this year
we are projected to reach around $80
million. Last year we shipped out 185
Q: What are some of the big
containers and this year our goal is
challenges that Project Cure faces?
205. No one in the world is shipping
as much volume as we are. The next
A: We have grown to where we largest organization is around 50 ship-
are running warehouses in six major ping containers. In addition, there are
cities across the United States being: only 35 paid staff but around 25,000
Houston, Denver, Phoenix, Chicago, volunteers. That makes for 800 vol-
Philadelphia and Nashville.
unteers per staff member. We also
have to navigate the customs of the
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