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Hey everyone, so today we're releasing another live interview from our How I Built This Summit.

It's my conversation with Tarek Fareed, the founder of Edible Arrangements,

and you might remember from the original episode he was on, that he started his first business in high school.

It was a little flower shop near his home in West Haven, Connecticut.

And after a few years, Tarek pivoted from flowers to fruit, and eventually built a $600 million company.

And Tarek's story is also about family.

The immigrant parents that raised him and helped support him in the early days of the flower shop,

and the sacrifices that all families make when somebody they love becomes a full-time entrepreneur.

But before we get into that part of the story, I asked Tarek about the idea behind Edible Arrangements,

the idea of cutting up melon and pineapples and strawberries, and arranging them into edible bouquets.

I have a lot of questions for you, but I wanted to start on this idea about bad ideas.

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