Jose Prendes left Cuba as a teenager with his mother and sister, to Ecuador. They did not know if his father could join them. After 5 years with the help of a Cuban-American organization, his family moved to Miami. He studied English, attended college for a few years, and started working.
Jose described his first impression of America, that everything was clean and organized. As an organized person himself, he loved that. As he started his family, he began an online pet retailer. It was growing until Hurricane Wilma hit Miami and destroyed his building. The wind actually pulled the … More