Immigrant, Inc., Robert L. Smith
Immigrant, Inc., Robert L. Smith
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Immigrant, Inc.
Why Immigrant Entrepreneurs Are Driving the New Economy (and how they will save the American worker)

Author: Robert L. Smith, Richard T. Herman

Narrator: Dennis Holland

Unabridged: 6 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 07/20/2020


Synopsis

Fact--50% of all technology companies in Silicon Valley and 25% of all technology companies in the United States were founded by immigrants.  This book will be both a toolkit and motivational call to action for Americans to reconnect to the entrepreneurial survival skills first honed by its immigrant forefathers.  It will reveal the unique entrepreneurial skills of the unsung immigrant small business owners in urban centers as well as the immigrant entrepreneurial giants who founded new and longstanding mega companies such as Intel, Google, Warner Brothers, Yahoo, Anheuser-Busch, Sun Microsystems, Goldman Sachs, Hot Pockets, Linux, Goya Foods, Bose, Paramount Pictures, Max Factor, and YouTube.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Marcus on March 01, 2025

As an immigrant myself, this is a well-researched work packed with positivity and wisdom. It depicts many immigrants’ successful business ventures after moving to the US and how entrepreneurship is profoundly rooted in immigrants.......more

Goodreads review by Ryan on March 29, 2020

This is just the generic “immigrants are good for the nation because high skill immigrants are good for the economy”. This has been better presented in other books, and also is only one piece of the immigration story (both pro and con).......more

Goodreads review by Manuel on February 20, 2024

Interesting perspectives. I cannot claim to agree with everything stated in the book, but I think the authos delivers his ideas greatly and definitely provokes some second guessing.......more

Goodreads review by Jeramey on August 27, 2014

If I had read this in 2009, not 2014, I might have liked it more. Instead it seems like a brief argument (and one I 100% agree with) drawn out by using countless individual stories. The more familiar you are with the topic, the less I suspect you'll get out of the book.......more