Gideon Chamdi was probably just like that in his younger years, and the competitive drive that motivates him probably saw him race friends back to the end of the line too. Chamdi, whose family emigrated from Israel to the USA in the mid 1980s, enlisted in the Israeli Defense Force for several years in the 90s before returning to civilian life in America. He was living on Maui and working as a server when his brother, a diamond wholesaler, asked him to learn the business and help with the company. After working with his brother for 15 years, Chamdi decided to start his own diamond wholesale business online, known as Diamonds by Wire.