Diversity is in our DNA 🇺🇸 Celebrate Immigrants You cannot tell the story of America without including the tremendous role that immigrants have played in shaping our nation. Now, more than ever, we must recognize their incredible contributions and be grateful for the openness and diversity of our nation. Openness is at the core of humanity. It’s at the core of our ethics and mores. Without immigrants, our country would be far worse off. Immigrants are our friends. They are our soccer coaches, teachers, doctors, lawyers, firefighters, soldiers, authors, artists… To me, they are my family. My dad came here some 20 years ago to start a new life. America took a chance on him. It’s time we show everyone that we are willing to take a chance. The business world, in particular, should be especially thankful and cognizant. The numbers from the demonstrate the importance that immigration has had on our Economy: Renew Your Economy Report Even though immigrants have made up only 10.5 percent of the American population on average since 1850, there are 90 immigrant-founded Fortune 500 companies, accounting for 18 percent of the list. When you include the additional 114 companies founded by the children of immigrants, the share of the Fortune 500 list grows to over 40 percent. More than 40 percent of the 2010 Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants or their children. The newest Fortune 500 companies are more likely to have an immigrant founder. Just shy of 20 percent of the newest Fortune 500 companies — those founded over the 25-year period between 1985 and 2010 — have an immigrant founder. Many of America’s greatest brands — Apple, Google, AT&T, Budweiser, Colgate, eBay, General Electric, IBM, and McDonald’s, to name just a few — owe their origin to a founder who was an immigrant or the child of an immigrant. Seven of the 10 most valuable brands in the world come from American companies founded by immigrants or children of immigrants. Diversity is built into our DNA. This is the America we know. and I put together of immigrant founders. Truly amazing what these people have done! My friend a list _Openness is at the core of the American DNA. Immigrants are our friends, coaches, teachers, family members-they are the…_celebrateimmigrants.us Celebrate Immigrants Of course, this is just what we could find overnight scouring google. I’m sure there is more, but here is a start: , The Huffington Post Arianna Huffington , Stripe John Collison , Stripe Patrick Collison , Google/Alphabet Sergey Brin Click to Tweet this List , Colgate William Colgate , Vayner Media Gary Vaynerchuk , Carnegie Steel Company Andrew Carnegie , Elizabeth Arden Inc Elizabeth Arden , Ebay Pierre Omidyar , Social Capital Chamath Palihapitiya , WhatsApp Jan Koum , SanDisk Sanjay Mehrotra , Zuora Tien Tzou , Tesla/SpaceX Elon Musk , Jawbone Alexander Asseily , Gusto Tomer London , WeWork Adam Neumann , Dhiraj Rajaram Dhiraj Rajaram , Eventbrite Renaud Visage , CloudFlare Michelle Zatlyn , Dropbox Arash Ferdowsi , Tinder Sean Rad , Venmo Iqram Magdon-Ismail , Lending Club Renaud Laplanche , Shapeways Peter Weijmarsh , Philz Coffee Phil Jaber , Paypal Max Levchin , Instagram Mike Krieger , Tidemark Christian Gheorghe , Kraft James L. Kraft , Comcast Television Daniel Aaron , Intel Corporation Andrew Grove , Yahoo Jerry Yang , Goldman Sachs Marcus Goldman , Goldman Sachs Samuel Sachs , Capital One Financial Nigel Morris , Qualcomm Inc. Andrew Viterbi , Nordstrom John W. Nordstrom , WR Grace and Company William Russell Grace , AT&T Alexander Graham Bell , Kohl’s Maxwell Kohl , Liz Clairborne Inc Liz Clairborne , Hovanian Enterprises Kevork Hovnanian , Yurie Systems Jeong Kim , Bugle Boy Industries William Mow , Sara Lee Nathan Cummings , DuPont E.I Du Pont , Pfizer Charles Pfizer , Procter and Gamble William Procter , Procter and Gamble James Gamble , Sun Microsystems Vinod Khosla , Sun Microsystems Andy Bechtolsheim , Bloom Energy K.R. Sridhar , Sprinklr Ragy Thomas , Tango Eric Setton , Oscar Health Mario Schlosser , Joule Unlimited Noubar Afeyan , Helicopters Igor Sikorsky , Cheezburger Ben Huh , littleBits Ayah Bdeir , Evernote Phil Libin , Helena Rubenstein Inc Helena Rubinstein , Computer Associates Charles Wang , Youtube Steve Chen , Founder of Zumba Beto Perez , Brightstar Marcelo Claure This list could be 10x longer. 20 years from now, it should be 100x longer. Let’s make sure American policy does not change that. Speak up and stand for what you believe in. Stay inspired! As always, feel free to reach out if you have any questions! You can find me on or Jordan Gonen Twitter
