Ramtin Naimi

My parents are Iranian immigrants.

My dad immigrated pre-revolution, my mom post-revolution.

I have an older brother, he's five years older than I am.

And we grew up in Los Angeles, just outside of Calabasas.

And my parents are small business owners.

When I lived in LA, my father owned a couple of restaurants, a couple of dry cleaners, and my mom was in school to be a dental hygienist.

when we moved to the Bay Area, because that's where my mom had a sister and she wanted to be closer to family.

That's probably about 12 or 13 years old.

My dad, he's an immigrant coming from another country, so they're all financially motivated.

He kind of, in an early stage, instilled in me that America revolves around money.

You need to figure out a way to make it.

I heard it a little too often as a kid.

One of the things that I could point to when I was younger was the stock market.

For whatever reason, my dad always had CNBC on in the mornings before school started, and I always saw it in the background.

And

When I was 13 years old, he was kind enough to lend me $2,000, him and my mom.

And I wanted to teach myself to trade stocks.

And I quickly learned that $2,000 was not enough money to trade stocks.

And I wanted to learn to trade derivatives instead.

I learned that the multiple potential and derivatives is order of magnitudes, what you get in the stock market.