Kunal Shah: evaluation

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…Is there anything more you want to share about that early challenge you ran into or is that something you've shared often? No, I mean I've shared that enough, but I used to not talk about it before because I used to think that I would get some sympathy for that. And only in the recent past did I speak about it because I want people to realize that I was not some gifted kid who had some rich parents who made me extraordinarily bright and put me in great schools and colleges and I made my way through that. I used to not talk about it earlier because there's a lot of tendency to give sympathy to those people who say, "Oh, this guy had struggled." And I don't want to be given any credit for playing that poverty card or this card or struggling for food card. That's not an excuse. There are so many people in the world who've done extraordinarily well because they had the gift of struggle. And I often tell people that this is the biggest curse of successful parents, that that's the only gift they'll not be able to give to their kids, the gift of struggle that they had. Wow.…

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