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could arrange a Visa so he could stay. Boris also told Ryan of two other young men worth hiring, both single, and who would do anything to get to the U.S. They would all work for peanuts.
    Several weeks later, with legitimate three-year HB-1 work permits, the three Russian scientists flew into JFK.
    Ryan formed Astermine, Inc. a space mining research company so that he could have a company to offer the work permits. Astermine, Inc. was based in an unused and empty corner shop a few blocks from the house where he still lived with his parents. There were a few rooms upstairs above the shop, and the happy three scientists moved in and spent a lot of time with Ryan brainstorming about future space travel.
    As these men began research projects at Astermine, Inc., Ryan, still in his second year of university studies, started a computer software production company in the garage of his large, newly purchased brownstone closer to the university. Ryan’s clever mother was the instigator of this idea; she understood the direction the new computer industry was heading and what the new industry would need.
    Three years later, once the Russians received their Green Cards, Ryan moved Astermine, Inc. and its five employees to California. The team now included a fourth Russian computer genius and an American friend of Ryan’s from university.
    Ryan received his own PhD at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering in Los Angeles, California two years later. By the time he received his Doctorate, the company was moving into its own newly-constructed building in Silicon Valley. The company had grown to 100 employees, and was projected by Forbes magazine to double its workforce every month for the foreseeable future. His four Russian scientists were still with him and he had purchased a large house close by for him and his team to enjoy life.
    A year after he and his company developed into a profitable venture, and was beginning to control a large share of the personal computer market, his mother, who was a fifty-fifty partner in the business, offered him a substantial sum to take over his company. They were making a lot of money and his space hobby, as she called it, took him away from running the computer business. Ryan allowed her to take the reins—for a couple million dollars and a dinner to celebrate.
    He then began to look at the new and emerging internet. All the while, Ryan Richmond spent his free time with the Russian team. Not only did they stay with him, they championed the passion he indulged in, drawing and designing crafts to fly into space.
    During that same year, he and two university friends raised enough capital to set up an internet search company and went through millions of dollars of his own money, before the new company made its first penny.
    At the age of thirty-two, he again was bought out, this time by his two friends, and Ryan decided to explore new ideas. He still hadn’t been in love, but had learned about the female species after his first Russian female scientist arrived from St. Petersburg, Russia to join the team. She was a very pretty Russian blonde who had the largest eyes he had ever seen on a girl. That was not the only part of her anatomy that was large, and Ryan learned the delights a girl could offer.
    It lasted all of five years before she decided to return to Russia because her mother was sick, and needed a care taker.
    A couple of years before she left, he had increased his team again by employing three of the best European aerospace designers and a couple of knowledgeable scientists in different fields of biology and physics.
    After the sale of the Internet search company he was able to employ several of the best brains at NASA to grow his team even more. They had been terminated suddenly and without warning for some political reason, and Ryan now wealthy, scooped them up on a ten-year contract. This move was going to cause him hardship in the future.
    Now, he ran Astermine, Inc. from a single,