My family has run just about every kind of company there is: medical practices, real estate, an HVAC business in Florida. I grew up living and working in them. Owning something and being responsible for it was simply what the adults around me did, so I never really considered another path.

The summer after my junior year at NYU I went to work for a couple of guys who were trying to buy a business and run it themselves. That was when it clicked that this was a real thing a person could actually do, rather than something you read about.

Then I went to Yale for my MBA, which is where this stopped being an idea and turned into a plan. I helped run the entrepreneurship through acquisition club, spent two years around people doing exactly this, and left certain that I wanted to own and operate one company myself.

I got married in June. My wife Aviv is an internal medicine resident, and we live in Boston for now. When I buy a company we move to it. That isn't a concession I'm making, it's the entire point.

Outside of work I'm usually diving, on the water, or outside somewhere. I grew up near the ocean and never really got it out of my system.