Ric Elias

So it wasn't until 40 that I would say, okay,

We're going to be okay even if it's at a level that is not good enough.

I build a lot of courage.

I'm like, you know what?

I'll go for anything.

With a little luck and the right people around you, anything can happen.

Can you tell me about your grandfather?

I never met my grandpa.

He was my dad's dad.

By all accounts, he was much older than my grandma.

He's Lebanese, came to Puerto Rico on a boat when he was a little kid.

There was an epidemic.

The boat was going somewhere else, stopped in Puerto Rico, pushed everybody out of the boat.

He ended up growing up partly in Puerto Rico, back in Lebanon, Christian Lebanese.

And then he came back in his 20s to Puerto Rico and became one of the most successful

The stories of my grandpa was like 20 servants in the house, one of the big mansions.

And he was basically had cornered the market for all vegetables, imported everything, set the price, stories of predatory pricing, beautiful, like this crazy stories of all the things he was.

And I never met him.

There's a lot of this in mythology, which I understand.

But what was really interesting, I think in his 50s, he got Alzheimer's, really early Alzheimer's.