The house that cheese built : the unusual life of the Mexican immigrant who defined a multibillion-dollar global industry / by Miguel A Leal.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Leal, Miguel A., author.

Contributor:

Perez, Andrew Joseph, narrator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leal, Miguel A.

Latin Americans--United States--Biography.

Latin Americans.

Businessmen--United States--Biography.

Businessmen.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 audio file (7 hr., 9 min.))

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

Rego Park : Ascent Audio, 2023.

[Place of publication not identified] : Ascent Audio, 2023.

System Details:

audio file

Summary:

A quintessential American dream story from a Mexican entrepreneur who shares the tale of building a multi-million-dollar business from scratch, complete with both success and failure, and always a vision of hope. Leal came to the US penniless as a teenager, speaking almost no English; he literally slept in the boiler room of a Wisconsin cheese factory for months before he was caught. Through hard work, grit, and ingenuity Leal would go on to launch his own business. He is widely credited with introducing Mexican cheeses to the US market and grew his company to a multi-million-dollar success story that defined an industry. Yet, like many successful entrepreneurs, Leal's great successes were matched by personal failures: the end of a marriage; trouble with law enforcement; and the deeply felt sense that there must be something more to life than great wealth. Leal's memoir, The House that Cheese Built, is both a quintessential immigrant success story-one that beautifully illustrates the immigrant experiences: isolation, fear, and ambition for a better life and assimilation-as well as a thoughtful personal account of entrepreneurship and all its benefits and costs.

Participant:

Narrator: Andrew Joseph Perez.

Notes:

Unabridged.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9781663729637

1663729638

OCLC:

1399533660