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Article: 504 loan leads to smoother sailing.(Occupation overview)
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- San Diego Business Journal
- Article date:
- April 21, 2008
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Any business owner can tell you a story of how he climbed the ladder or made the leap from employee to employer. Few of those stories can compare to that of John Le, owner of seafood importer Seafood Connection Inc. in San Jose, Calif.
In 1979 at age 17, Le and his father boarded a boat with nearly 3,000 other people to flee their native Vietnam. Refused by Indonesia, the boat traveled on to another island ("I don't know how to translate the name of it into English," Le said.) and was refused again when it tried to land.
Le and his father jumped into the harbor and tried to swim for shore. Police scooped them up and put them back on the boat, which then ...