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Robert Nikic arrived in the United States as a child, fleeing the Balkan wars with his family and starting over with almost nothing. He founded his first companies without outside investment, scaling them to serve over a billion users — proof that the people shut out of global markets are not a problem to solve but a market to design for.

Those ventures were recognized on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies, climbing to #35 nationally — the conviction that durable growth is built from the ground up, by everyday people, not handed down by capital.

Before the institutional invitation came the public one: a TEDx talk, 'Unlocking Success: Second Chances Can Change Your Life,' and appearances on leading podcasts and shows — the public case for access, second chances, and building from scarcity that preceded the global table.

Today, Robert advises on economic-access initiatives at the United Nations — where a thesis the market already validated meets the institutions that can scale it — and continues to build, invest in people, and open doors for the next person who was told they did not count.