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HOW I GREW MY LANGUAGE BUSINESS FROM A SIDE HUSTLE TO A SUCCESS

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PIEDMONT GLOBAL LANGUAGE SOLUTIONSCEO: MOHAMED HUSSEIN

CATEGORY: BUSINESS PRODUCTS & SERVICES

THREE-YEAR REVENUE GROWTH: 1,353%

As a first-generation Somali American and the oldest of eight kids who grew up in a packed household in Northern Virginia, Mohamed Hussein, 32, has been honing his skills as an interpreter and an entrepreneur since childhood. He and his siblings would respond in English to his parents’ Somali, and he was always running a —AS TOLD TO BEN SHERRY

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