And so, you know, my parents had a strong accent, but they spoke English beautifully.

I only spoke Portuguese.

And I also had an accent when I was a child.

And so, the ways that we were different, it was seen by the people around us.

And it led to a lot of negativity, a lot of xenophobia, a lot of hate.

And throughout all of that, I was asking my parents, like, "Why did you bring us here?

Why would you make this choice?"

And, you know, it really was something where they wanted me to trust the process, have faith in good humanity, even though I wasn't seeing it at the time.

So, Pierre before he was a startup founder, he was just a kid trying to figure out how to be a kid growing up.

Yeah.

- So, how old were you whenever you moved to the United States?

- So I was about, you know, five; five, six.

I remember my first time seeing snow, I was terrified, because growing up with the equator running through where I'm from, we don't see snow.

But I was a kid.

I was young enough to understand that things were changing and things were moving.

But, you know, not old enough to fully process what the world would look like.

- Right.

Now, how do you think those experiences at that age kind of laid a foundation or a bedrock that made you who you are today?

- You know, I think, if I hadn't experienced them, I wouldn't have so many core memories from that move from Guyana to the United States.

But they were foundational to the way that I maneuver now, right?

I faced so much shifting and changing at a young age that it put me in a place to say, "Okay, if I need to pivot, how am I able to pivot based on the example that I saw from my mother, from my father, from my siblings?"

So, I think being so young with so many changes, it gave me a mindset of being able to pivot and swivel on a moment's notice.