You probably didn’t know this.
Today’s valuation:
> Apple: $2.39 Trillion
> Google: $1.19 Trillion
> Amazon: $972 Billion
> Facebook: $503 Billion
Commonality?
They’re all founded by first or second-generation immigrants:
> Apple: founder Steve Jobs was the son of a Syrian immigrant
> Google: founder Sergey Brin was born in Russia
> Amazon: Jeff Bezos is a second-generation Cuban immigrant
> Facebook: co-founder Eduardo Saverin is a Brazilian native
These are not outline stories of immigrant founders that created unicorns.
More than half of America's unicorns have immigrant founders. (National Foundation for American Policy).
Examples include:
→ SpaceX, Stripe, Instacart, Databricks, Epic Games, and many others…
Are you or your co-founder an immigrant?
I know I am.
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