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How a Young Immigrant Rapidly Rose in the Pizza Business

He didn't know what pizza was when he was growing up in Bangladesh, but after delivering pizzas in high school, Ag Mahmud now owns four Papa John's restaurants.
Source: David Yellen

Ag Mahmud is 29 and owns four Papa John’s restaurants in New York and Connecticut. But he didn’t always know what pizza was. He grew up in a small village in Bangladesh, where fast food wasn’t exactly common fare. In 2002, when he was 16, his family moved to America. “I didn’t really have any goals

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