How a Ukrainian Immigrant Built Millions Without a Degree
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How did Viktor's immigrant background shape his early work ethic and first jobs?
I am originally from Ukraine and I moved to the United States with no English and no idea what I'm doing. I'm a living, breathing proof that American dreams still exist. And when I was 24, I realized that I made my personality.
Victor Prozapas is an entrepreneur, investor and business leader with ventures spanning hospitality, wellness, construction and private investments. He builds purpose driven businesses through strategic leadership, innovation and a commitment to creating lasting value for people and communities.
How important is faith and religion in your ventures?
The business gives me influence, but only ministry will give me purpose. There will be no person that's going to come to me and say, like, invest in this. If it's going to go against my Christian value, don't even bring it up. My values and virtues is more important than making money. You only have one chance. and that one chance use it really well you can never be as successful as somebody else you can be successful as you are because you know success is not about it spans the globe like a super high school internet Elvis
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hey welcome everybody back to another episode of living your legacy podcast uh we're here down in the studios at uh miami beach and it's the world cup fever we got a special guest and he's come all the way from ohio to join us and uh yeah what's your name and where you uh What's good with your business?
Hello, my name is Victor Prezapas. I'm from Columbus, Ohio. And first of all, I want to thank you for this opportunity. I want to thank Red Rudy for inviting me here and giving me this opportunity. And it's really an awesome place. your studio, what you guys doing. I really love the atmosphere. So it's great. But I'm here to, I guess, to talk about what's happened in my life. And right now, my main company is Victor Ventures, and I'm venturing out.
Okay, venturing out. Venturing out to where?
Well, this is something that I love to do right now to invest and build companies and build people and kind of like I call it jump off without parachutes.
Okay. Okay. Yeah. So that's the entrepreneurial journey. So you're investing in startups or companies that already have kind of like a foothold?
Either. So I do it all. Like I always tell my friends, there's no crazy idea for me. If somebody tells me the idea and I like it, I'm I will jump on that idea, even though it might never work out really well. But I still, I like to see that process from beginning to the end.
Okay. So, yeah, I mean, when startups are pitching to ventures, right? What do you look at in a business? I mean, you have to go through all the financials, right? A lot of people invest in people also. More than the numbers, they say, wow, your company, but also just you as a founder, you are someone that I could invest in. What are the top things that you're looking at before you make an investment?
For me, I invest more in people that numbers. And that's what I really need to kind of see that person. If the person is business minded, you know, have a good Christian values, it's a key for me. All right. Because I can I can. I can go with that person. I can relate to that person. And if I see that, then I might ignore all the numbers. And if the idea makes sense, if the idea have future or prospect at the surface, then we can go deep.
Okay, okay. And yeah, so I hear you definitely have an accent, right? And you'd have a European name, Victor. What's your background?
So I am originally from Ukraine and I moved to the United States when I was 16 with my family with no English and no idea what I'm doing.
Wow. So 16, you're a little rambunctious teenager, right? And where did you guys move to?
So originally we moved to Washington State, a place called Tri-Cities.
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