Vlad Barbalat
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638 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 23 Jun
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But the view was very simple.
Bread is bread.
Why would you need more bread?
You get your loaf and you go have your calories.
In the US, we take the exact opposite view.
If you want to reinvent the croissant, which exists in thousand different ways right around Union Square, you can do that.
And if you can figure out a way to make it special to you,
And to your customer, there will be a market for that.
And what is the act of that?
That is human creativity.
That is humans iterating and perfecting and continuing to apply themselves and to express themselves on something that doesn't need necessarily a different way of consuming calories.
But it's beautiful.
It's what drives, I think, people in general in the United States is to constantly make little tweaks that make things better.
And we all benefit from those.
At the highest level, you're not given permission to dream.
You're born to survive.
You're born with an attitude and a notion of, I need to navigate these ways of life so that I can survive.
I don't think it's worth getting into all the other components.
Like I said, I experienced...
really difficult persecution, being Jewish in the Soviet Union.
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