What’s Your Story: Ivan Tashev
IVAN TASHEV: So I’m born in a city called Yambol in Bulgaria, my origin country. The city [was] created 2,000 years B.C. and now sits on the two shores of the river called Tundzha. It always has been an important transportation and agricultural center in the entire region, and I grew up there in a family of two lecturers. My parents were teaching history. And they loved to travel. So everywhere I go, I had two excellent tourist guides with me: “This in this place happened at this and this and this in this year.”
GEHRKE: Were there quizzes afterwards? [LAUGHTER]
TASHEV: But it happened that I was more fond to engineering, technology, math, all of the devices. It just … mechanical things just fascinated me. When I read