Vlad Tenev

And then when I moved with my grandparents, I went to a second one and then I had to go to a third one.

So I just remember moving schools and never really being able to settle in and have a group of friends.

In the U.S., oddly enough, first grade, I started making friends.

At the beginning of the year, my English was...

pretty weak, pretty rudimentary.

But by the end of the year, I was actually like in advanced English, right?

So I had kind of like, I started taking English and math with the people from higher grades and I had my group of friends.

And then I stayed in that school for four years.

So it was like kindergarten through third grade, which at that time was the longest I'd been at a place.

So the longer it went,

the more acutely I felt that I didn't really want to go back to Bulgaria, the more settled and kind of American I felt.

And then I remember my parents, 1996 was when they started doing a little bit better.

My dad had finished his PhD.

He had gotten a full-time job at the World Bank.

What was he doing at the World Bank?

At first he was a consultant, but then he became an economist.

And then he paid for my mom to get her MBA at Georgetown.

And then she joined the World Bank as well.

So they worked there together for their entire career, you know, 25 years plus for my dad.

How much do you know about the World Bank?