In the December issue of Florida Trend, reporter Nancy Dahlberg spotlighted Chamber Member and alum of the 2022 Cohort of the Minority Business Accelerator, Tony Selvaggio. The native of Venezuela's story was featured in the Next Gen section. It's certainly a compelling one. Selvaggio launched his electronic recycling company three years after immigrating to Tampa from Venezuela.
Here's part of that interview: ”This community welcomed me with open arms,” he says. Participating in a Tampa Bay Chamber program called Startup Scholars in 2015 helped Selvaggio prepare for acceptance to the chamber’s Minority Business Accelerator for companies generating at least half a million dollars in revenue. “Because of that, we were able to get into the SLEI (Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative) at Stanford University, and because of that program, we applied to Apple, so everything is connected. Everyone in the community was rooting for us, opening doors, trying to make it happen.”
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