Photo Credit: Eduard Khemchan
Real success cannot be inherited, but the qualities that lead someone to build their own success can. The best things a person can pass down are their work ethic, upright character, and a moral core that makes them want to bring something of value into the world. This lesson is about the American Dream and what drives true entrepreneurship. Eduard Khemchan, who started as the humble son of a photographer, learned this well.
Moving from Georgia to the United States at twelve, Eduard already had his first job riding through the dark of night in Oregon to deliver newspapers at thirteen. He grew up as part of a hardworking family. His father, a photographer, was a dedicated worker who provided for a family of seven with his art. This was not easy, and Eduard remembers the lessons he learned from watching his father’s efforts: hard work, resilience, and responsibility for the promises one has made and the people one is committed to.
Eduard kept his belief in hard work. At 21, he was an entrepreneur, making his fresh start in the construction industry. He put all his efforts into growing his business and achieved surprising success even in his first year. While all success requires a little luck, Eduard gave his entrepreneurial gambles their best chance with his bold, ambitious vision and tireless labor.
Around the same time, Eduard tested his luck and vision in the dynamic arenas of stocks, options, and forex trading. It was the late 90s, and e-trading was still a young business waiting to be defined by the hands of its early adopters. While he had learned about hard work from his father, Eduard also brought his home-grown thirst for knowledge and innovation. He entered the new millennium with a new mastery of this fresh trade, ready to see what the future could become.
It’s no wonder that Eduard would also take quickly to the newest innovations in Web3, cryptocurrency investments, AI trading tech, and modern crowdfunding platforms that diversify access to investments. Eduard found the decentralized nature of this technology empowering for both himself and others he wanted to work with. He discovered how blockchain collaboration can open the world of investment to more new, young, and ambitious traders, and he felt inspired to explore and innovate.
As the 2010s progressed into the 2020s and this technology became more advanced and more decentralized, Eduard found new challenges but also found in himself a growing desire to integrate compassion into his business. As long as this new financial tech connects more people than ever before, shouldn’t there also be new energy for philanthropy? Eduard found such an energy in himself; it was part of what he’d inherited from his upbringing: the desire to do right by the world around him. He wanted to make a positive difference.
Eduard’s life is now one of humanitarian efforts, entrepreneurship, and technological investment. It grows out of a long-held humility; the same energy that drove him when earning money was as simple as getting newspapers on doorsteps. Things are more complicated now, but the possibilities are endless, and Eduard Khemchan has the right motivation to succeed.
Written in partnership with Tom White
