I left the U.S. for India and built a $23M burrito business

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Bert Mueller moved from the U.S. to India in 2012 and ended up building one of the country’s biggest Mexican-inspired food chains. He was able to turn a $250K investment into a $23 million business, all while learning how to navigate and thrive with life in India.

“I wanted to go somewhere that was radically different than the U.S. and so I decided that India was the place to be given that, first off, I loved Indian food and second, people spoke English,” he says.

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