MY STORY Where I come from and what shaped my approach to investing From Adversity to Opportunity I was born in Syria, a place filled with beauty but also hardship. When the war started, my childhood ended quickly. School was not an option anymore, safety was the only priority. My family fled to Turkey, and life restarted from zero. At twelve, while most kids were in school, I worked six days a week in textile factories. I earned around thirty dollars a week, just enough to eat and keep a roof. But I refused to stay at the bottom. That phase taught me discipline, resilience, and self-education. Building Through Education Later, I came to Austria. I had missed four years of school because of war. I entered middle school, then gymnasium, without knowing German or English. I studied bot...