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| Name | Brian Forde |
| Address | 23601 Moulton Parkway, Suite 220
Laguna Hills, California 92653, United States |
| Email | info@forde.com |
| Website | https://www.forde.com/ |
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| Contributor | RP |
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Apr 20, 2023 10:57am |
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| Info | I was born and raised in Tustin. It’s where I built my first computer, started my first company, and took my first college course.
I’m a Democrat and I worked in the Obama White House, so it might surprise you to learn that my parents are two lifelong Republicans. In 2012, my parents – two of the most loving, supportive people you’ll ever meet – voted to kick my boss out of office.
But I understand where my parents are coming from. My mother was born in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Scotland, immigrated to the U.S. when she was nineteen, and worked as a nanny while studying to become a secretary. My father owned a small real estate appraisal business and regularly bemoaned the regulations and red tape that made it hard for him to hire and grow.
They believe in hard work and self-reliance. I share these values, which is why I started my own company in high school, helping local businesses build out their IT infrastructure. I continued running it during college at UCLA and planned to devote myself to it full time after graduation.
But then, during the fall of my senior year, 9/11 happened. As I watched the Twin Towers fall, scaling my business no longer seemed like the most important thing I could be doing.
So instead, I joined the Peace Corps. I was sent to Nicaragua, where I taught business skills to high school students in a small town four hours outside the capital.
I’ve always been passionate about using technology to improve people’s lives. Over those two years in the Peace Corps, I watched my Nicaraguan friends and neighbors spend too much of their hard-earned money on phone calls to family members living abroad. So when my time in the Peace Corps was up, I decided to stay in the country and try something new.
I founded a phone company with a local friend, and together we installed 80-foot internet towers across the country. The Skype-like service we provided lowered the cost of calls to the U.S. by 90%. Our business quickly became one of the largest phone companies in Nicaragua, saving people millions of dollars a year.
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