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Why So Many CEOs Are Immigrants | Newsthink

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Why So Many CEOs Are Immigrants Brush up on your calculus, programming, and computer science skills for free at https://brilliant.org/newsthink/. The first 200 people to sign up get 20% off the annual Premium subscription. Newsthink is produced and presented by Cindy Pom https://twitter.com/cindypom Grab your Newsthink merch here: https://newsthink.creator-spring.com Thank you to our Patrons, including Ronil Patel, Chesky Neceski, Austin Grant, Darren Tyrell-Knights, Tom Eng, Tim Desir, Ryan Bresser, Justin Anderson, Neo Ge, Steven Bartlett Support Newsthink on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Newsthink Special thanks to DLD Conference for use of their footage in this story https://dld-conference.com Sources: 0:52 Sebastian Bergmann, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons 0:56 Sequoia Capital https://www.sequoiacap.com 1:05 Minette Lontsie, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 via Wikimedia Commons 1:07 Photo of Jan Koum: Picture Alliance / Jan Haas / DLD Conference '14 1:45 AlejandroLinaresGarcia, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 via Wikimedia Commons 1:56 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0883902616300052 2:47 James Duncan Davidson/O'Reilly Media, Inc., CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons 2:54 Ehud Kenan, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons 3:02 Backrub screengrab https://alychitech.com/backrub-googles-early-initial-name-90s/ 3:13 Joi Ito from Inbamura, Japan, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons 3:20 Bubamannaiitkgp11, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 via Wikimedia Commons 3:33 WestCoastivieS, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons 3:49 Александр Щербаков, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 via Wikimedia Commons 3:56 Nguyen Hung Vu from Hanoi, Vietnam, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons 4:20 Kees de Vos from The Hague, The Netherlands, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons 4:51 Kjetil Ree, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 via Wikimedia Commons 5:20 Amazon News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFtGTj93BTw&t=64s 6:23 Angela Duckworth https://angeladuckworth.com/ 7:13 Jan Koum: ©flohagena.com / DLD Conference ’14 Sergey Brin: Joi Ito from Inbamura, Japan, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Sundar Pichai: Maurizio Pesce from Milan, Italy, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 via Wikimedia Commons Eric Yuan: Zoom Jeff Bezos: Public domain Elon Musk: Tesla Brilliant people shaping our world. Follow the podcast & rate it 5 star! Find Newsthink on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Newsthink Disclaimer: This podcast is fan-made and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Newsthink. All content rights and trademarks belong to Newsthink. If you are the rightful owner and have any concerns, please get in touch with me directly. - --------- ----------- Keywords: physics, nvidia, spaceX, mathematics, mossad, starlink, tech leaders, jensen huang Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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