The American Dream

The American Dream is the belief that anyone, regardless of where they were born or what class they were born into, can attain their own version of success in a society where upward mobility is possible for everyone. The American Dream is achieved through sacrifice, risk-taking, and hard work, rather than by chance.

The American dream is the idea of a prosperous America coined in 1931 in a bestseller “Epic of America”.

Immigrants have been significant contributors to US innovation. No other country can proudly claim that within its relatively short history, it has contributed to 3/4th of human success. Whether such success arrived in the form of new products, scientific innovation, technological innovation, and/or quality of life enhancements.

Immigrants were responsible for 30 percent of aggregate US innovation since 1976, despite making up only 16 percent of the identified inventors. There are many well-known examples of foreign-born founders or cofounders of large US technology companies— for example, at Google (Sergey Brin), Tesla/SpaceX (Elon Musk), PayPal (Peter Thiel), Qualcomm (Andrew Viterbi), NVIDIA (Jensen Huang), Yahoo (Jerry Yang), and eBay (Pierre Omidyar).