"I didn't even hear the word or know what entrepreneurship meant until I went to college, but I started my first real business at the age of 13. You could call it a project. I imported electronics from China, specifically PlayStation controllers and memory cards. I created a website called Blochardware, after my last name. In 1998, it was an early e-commerce store, before people commonly paid online with credit cards, and actually, it was a real pain."
"Even before that, though, I was that kid who thought finance software was fun. At 10 years old, I was playing with Quicken for entertainment and writing pretend checks. The entrepreneurial bug My dad is an immigrant from the Soviet Union. He came to America in the '70s. My mom's family has been here longer, also from Eastern Europe. My dad was an entrepreneur."
Ethan Bloch began entrepreneurship at age 13 by importing PlayStation controllers and memory cards from China and selling them through a website called Blochardware. Transactions relied on cash-on-delivery with mail carriers collecting money orders. Bloch enjoyed finance software from age 10, using Quicken and writing pretend checks. His father immigrated from the Soviet Union and ran a secondhand clothing business; his mother later started her own company. Growing up around entrepreneurial parents influenced a desire for independence and leadership. Hiro is Bloch's 15th project and a financial-planning platform that leverages large language models.
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