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Overview

  • 1 reference 1 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Russian
  • 35, Male
  • Member since 2010
  • Entrepreneur
  • School of hard knocks, Brigham Young University
  • From Provo, UT
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Finding a supplier... Shanghai it is

ABOUT ME

I lived in Utah until I was 19, and then realized what a mistake that was. Spent my next two years on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (aka Mormons) in Donetsk, Ukraine. Picked up Russian there, came back and started going to school studying business.

I was on the founding team for Stubtopia.com when I was 18, and business school seemed like high school again, so I switched my major to advertising, and am taking a little haitus to find some suppliers and work on a second business.

PHILOSOPHY

"A coward dies a thousand times before his death." - William Shakespeare

"I'm not running away from something... I'm running toward something."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Right now unfortunately I'm more of a surfer than a hoster -- living out of shared apartments until I make it big, then I'll be the best hoster ever.

Interests

Soccer, Languages,

  • running
  • soccer
  • business
  • languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: A Beautiful Mind, Forrest Gump, The Italian Job, Inception

Music: Radiohead, Death Cab for Cutie, The Format, Fun., The Beatles, Arcade Fire

Books: Shakespeare, Tolstoy (especially in Russian), Emerson, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, Dibs in Search of Self

Countries I’ve Visited

Aruba, Bulgaria

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Ukraine, United States

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