We're a farming family from Mexico. I come from generations of Mexican cowboys, Mexican wranglers and ranchers, and so that farming life is very important to us. That's essentially our background. That was our foundation in Mexico.

And this photo right here is the first trailer park where we landed. It was called Village South, south of Dallas. And this family is us—me, my brother and my sister. We had a single wide trailer and one and a half bedrooms, one bathroom. You can see the size of it in the background. Growing up, it was about four kids and five adults living there until about the age of 16. So we kind of felt like sardines.

We went from being corn farmers in Mexico and we immigrated to Texas, and we became concrete workers in Texas. My dad started his concrete business there.

My dad was the ultimate entrepreneur and he had the ultimate vision. And here I am a product of my dad's sacrifice and of his willingness to leave everything behind and come to a world where nothing is promised. And there's nothing guaranteed. I get a lot of credit, because they're like, 'Oh, you're such a hard worker,' or 'Oh, you went to Engineering school at Texas A&M,' or, ‘Oh, you're doing your MBA at University of Texas in Austin.' Don't get me wrong, it's a lot of hard work. What people don't realize at the same time is that I didn't achieve this by myself. I had my Mexican dad who taught my work ethic and consequences to decisions and gave me a lot of vision to think about. At the same time, my mentors also came into the picture. One thing this picture doesn't show is all the people who have helped me along the way.