Vlad Tenev says his family immigrated to the United States in the 1990s after his father came to study for a master's degree at the University of Delaware and remained in the country.

“And, uh, actually in the nineteen nineties, so I immigrated to the US after my, my parents. My dad had an opportunity to come study at the University of Delaware for his master's, and then, um, was also was able to take advantage of that and, and stay in America full-time.”