Top Southeast official for SBA reflects on growing up in Sarasota

When he was growing up in Sarasota, Tyler Teresa recalls his father handing him a stack of business cards at the grocery store and telling him to put them on cars out in the parking lot. His dad owns Doctor Detail, an auto detailing company serving Sarasota and Manatee counties for more than 20 years. That was real person-to-person marketing, decades ago.

"I like to make the joke that I felt firsthand when businesses couldn't make payroll, which was often with my parents," says Teresa, whose mother handles bookkeeping.