Employee with her visitor's app on her phone enters the office building on way to work. Larry Gadea, the CEO and founder of the $1.4 billion market valuation workplace app, Envoy, had a circuitous route to success compared to other Silicon Valley tech leaders. As a young child he had to flee communist Romania with his family. He was smuggled out in the backseat of his parents' car, lived in Germany, then moved onto Ottawa, Canada. His parents held Master's degrees and had great careers in Romania, but they were forced to start all over again.

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