David Brown

But Ulukaya can't help himself.

Instead of talking cheese, he tells them about the factory he can't afford and his dream of turning Greek yogurt into an everyday grocery item.

The salesmen offer a solution.

KeyBank is partnered with the Small Business Administration, the federal agency that helps small businesses with funding, finance, and mentoring.

With KeyBank's help, Hamdi writes his first-ever business plan and forms a new company, AgroPharma, Inc.,

He pieces together the money he needs from the Small Business Administration, two banks, and a grant from the local county.

And in the summer of 2005, he buys the factory and hires a small team, four former Kraft employees, and a Turkish yogurt master named Mustafa Doğan.

On August 17th, 2005, Ulukaya gets the keys to the factory.

The whole place reeks of milk that's been sitting in the hot sun for too long.

There's so much to do, he doesn't even know where to start.

So he and his new colleagues take it one step at a time, starting by cleaning and painting the walls.

As they work, Ulukaya tells his team how he ended up here.

He came to the US in the mid-90s.

He didn't intend to come to America, but he definitely needed to leave Turkey.

Ulukaya is Kurdish, an ethnic minority that in the 90s was the center of an often violent conflict between a Turkish government that sought to erase Kurdish identity and a Kurdish separatist movement wanting independence.

Ulukaya started a newspaper calling out human rights abuses against Kurds.

That landed him a night in jail and was a clear signal that he needed to leave.

He thought about going to France or Germany, but then someone said America was the place to go.

Ulukaya shakes his head and smiles as he remembers his response.

The U.S., the home of capitalism and imperialism?