Ben didn’t know what was next, but he felt an insatiable drive to create the world he knew was possible, a world based on making. “There’s no difference between the women and men who walk into this country with nothing more than the shirt on their back and my ancestors who came through Ellis Island,” he says. “The American dream got lost and we need it now, more than ever. America’s just got to look in the mirror and say, Okay, we can do this. We can make paper here. We can make steel. We can make cotton. We can do those things.”
