Alex Schneider is one of the most influential businessmen in the world today. But the life of the future billionaire did not begin so rosyly. Alex is not one of those people who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. As the son of Soviet immigrants, he learned the value of hard work as a child.
Biographical information
The man who is now widely known as Alex Shnaider businessman was born in the USSR in the city of Leningrad, which is now called St. Petersburg. When the boy was only 4, the family moved to Israel. And already as a 13-year-old teenager, Alex ended up in Canada, where he moved with his parents for permanent residence.
Alex’s parents (mother is a dentist, father is an engineer) were unable to find work in their specialty in Canada. Therefore, they decided to start a business and purchased a small store called Russian Caviar. As was common in emigrant families back then, all family members, including children, were involved in the business. Alex didn’t sit idle either. He helped his parents by keeping the store clean, arranging merchandise, and interacting with customers. In his free time from school, the teenager served as a salesman. But this was not Alex’s only part-time job at the time. In addition to helping his parents with their store, the boy delivered newspapers along a certain route to earn some more money.
If we talk about the development of Alex Schneider as a successful businessman, it would be worth starting his biography precisely from the time he worked in his parent’s store in Toronto. It was then that the capable teenager, who made some progress in mathematics, realized that business was his calling.
Then events in the life of the future billionaire developed rapidly. After school, he entered York University, where he studied economics. Despite his academic success, there was a period when the young man abandoned college for a year and went into business buying and selling cars. A year later, Alex resumed his studies at the university and graduated with honors.
After university, the young man moved to Zurich, where he first tried steel trading. This was a turning point in his business career. He realized that metal trading was exactly what would allow him to reach the top.
The collapse of the USSR opened up dizzying opportunities for the young entrepreneur. His command of languages and long-standing family connections allowed him to take on the role of intermediary in the export of steel from the former USSR. And already in 1994 Alex founded his famous company Midland Group.
