If you haven't already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. In 2021, Oomnitza Co-founder CEO Arthur Lozinski spoke with me about an excellent pivot that is quite enlightening. Sramana Mitra: Let's start at the beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What kind of background did you have? Arthur Lozinski: Both my parents were from the Soviet Union. I was born in the Soviet Union in a country called Latvia. It was in 1989 right before the wall fell. Both my parents grew up in the Soviet Union. There is a quote by Napoleon Bonaparte that says, "If you want to understand a man, you have to understand where he was in his 20s." My parents grew up in communist Russia and my upbringing was influenced by that. Education was really important. I grew up in Germany. My parents emigrated to Germany when I was a small child and then we moved to the Silicon Valley just before high school