@rohanpaul_ai: Forbes just published a piece ranking America’s 250 most successful living immigrants. Nvidia, Google, AMD, Linux, Git,…
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Forbes published a ranking of America's most successful living immigrants, highlighting that many major tech companies like Nvidia, Google, and AMD were founded or led by immigrants, underscoring the role of immigration in driving American innovation.
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Forbes just published a piece ranking America’s 250 most successful living immigrants.
Nvidia, Google, AMD, Linux, Git, DoorDash, Zoom, Databricks, Snowflake, Anthropic, Perplexity, Waymo, Supermicro, and many other major companies are tied to founders, CEOs who came from outside the U.S.
America became insanely good at taking global ambition, giving it capital, universities, customers, legal structures, and scale, then letting that mix create companies that reshaped the entire planet.
Forbes (@Forbes): Jensen Huang, the Taiwan-born CEO of @Nvidia, has championed the role of immigration in American innovation.
“The miracle of Nvidia … would not be possible without immigration,” he wrote to employees last year.
Huang is featured on the #Forbes250 America’s Most Successful
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