Vlad Tenev says growing up in Bulgaria gave him an understanding of the consequences of a broken system without free markets and healthy capital markets.

“Pots and pans. Much better than the local currency at the time. And so, uh, yeah, I just, I grew up with that. I grew up understanding, you know, what happens in a broken system, uh, where you don't have, you know, free markets and good, healthy capital markets.”