Sam Parr: Immigrant founders succeed because foundational hardships reframe business risk
Sam Parr · Our Producer Had A 90-Minute Phone Call With Mr Beast… · Jul 19, 2022 · at 41:52
Sam Parr discusses with Shaan Puri why many first- and second-generation immigrant founders achieve outsized success, reflecting on Shaan's mother's initial journey moving from India to the United States.
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“What you notice talking to these people and a lot of you and I are friends with a lot of immigrant entrepreneurs or children of immigrant grants and their entrepreneurs. And you like, I often wonder, I'm like, how are these people succeeding when there's. It's they're coming from a place where things were much harder. You know, like I didn't learn how to, I didn't have to learn how to, you know, use a pay phone. I just knew. And you hear the story about your mom and you're like, well, that's why they succeed so well, because. Well, she had to learn how to use a fork. Like that's like, I imagine like pretty humiliating and you're frightened.”
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