Forbes: The American dream comes true, foreign immigrants among the richest people in the United States

Forbes: The American dream comes true, foreign immigrants among the richest people in the United States This year, Forbes listed nearly ten of the 400 richest people in the United States...

There are 37 immigrant billionaires on the Forbes list of American richest people, plus two couples, who have created a total of 39 billionaires. They are distributed in various industries, but most of them are concentrated in high-tech, finance and retail fields.

>Many successful immigrant entrepreneurs have made important contributions to well-known American companies, such as Google co-founder Sergey Brin who was born in a Jewish family in Russia; Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang was born in Taiwan; eBay founder Pierre Omidyar is from France, and Jeffrey Skoll, who helped found eBay, is Canadian. These three companies alone employ nearly 90,000 people in the United States.

>Others on the list have created shops and restaurants that many people frequent. These include Forever 21, founded by Korean couple Do Won Chang and Jin Sook, and Andrew and Peggy Cherng, the owners of the Panda Express chain. Haim Saban, the Israeli tycoon who founded the Power Rangers brand.

Most of the rich immigrants live in California and New York. Seven people are from Greater China.

More than half of these rich immigrants live in California, known as the Golden State, followed by New York State. Among the US$2 trillion in wealth of the 400 richest people in the United States, the combined wealth of immigrant rich in these two states alone accounts for US$200 billion. Nearly half come from 6 countries and regions: China, Hungary, India, Israel, Russia and Taiwan.

Among them, 7 are from Greater China. If you include South African-born Patrick Soon-Shiong, there are 8. With a fortune of US$9 billion, Chen is engaged in the pharmaceutical industry and is South Africa's richest man. My parents were from China and moved to South Africa during World War II.

David Sun from Taiwan and John Tu from China each have a fortune of US$4 billion. The two founded Kingston Technology in a garage in 1987.

> Roger Wang Hung (Roger Wang Hung, born in 1948) is originally from Guangzhou, Guangdong, and grew up and studied in Taiwan. In 1973, he went to the United States to obtain a master's degree in business administration. Founded Pan Pacific Holdings in 1978. Current wealth is US$3 billion.

Panda Management Co., founded by Cheng Zhengchang, who was born in Yangzhou, was brought to Taiwan and Japan by his father, and finally settled in the United States, and Peggy Chiang, who was born in Myanmar. It has developed into the largest Chinese restaurant chain in the United States. Wealth $2.7 billion.

Victor Fung is the grandson of the founder of the century-old Hong Kong supply chain group Li & Fung. Wealth $2.7 billion.

Min Kao from Nantou, Taiwan is the co-founder of the GPS satellite navigation company Garmin, with a wealth of US$2.3 billion.

Jerry Yang is the well-known founder of Yahoo. He is from Taiwan and has a wealth of US$1.7 billion.

>The founder of electric car company Tesla has attracted the most attention recently

One of the most high-profile entrepreneurs currently, Elon Musk, the founder of the American electric car company Tesla, immigrated to the United States in 1992. When he was 17 years old, he immigrated to Canada for the first time without the support of his father because he refused to join the army in South Africa and worked for the government that pursued the apartheid policy at that time. He then transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, where he obtained a double major in physics and business. He found the United States to be a welcoming and welcoming environment, first co-founding the online payment system PayPal with partners, and then launching a now profitable electric car company.

Musk's wealth has more than doubled this year, jumping to $6.7 billion, partly due to the surge in Tesla's stock price. His latest idea, the Hyperloop, could carry passengers from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 35 minutes.

American Dream: "You have to work hard and create your own opportunities. Here, everything is possible!"

Shahid Khan, the CEO of the auto parts manufacturer Flex-N-Gate and the owner of the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars, came to the United States to study engineering when he was 16 years old with $500 given by his father. While studying at the University of Illinois, he worked as a dishwasher, earning $1.20 an hour.

Sidhan once said in an interview with Forbes, "You can do anything you want in the United States," he said. "You have to work hard, you have to create your own opportunities, and you have to have a little luck. But here, all this is possible." This is not the American dream of every immigrant.

>Appendix: Immigrant billionaires on the Forbes rich list:

●Sergey Brin, Russia, US$24.4 billion

●George Soros, Hungary, US$20 billion

>●Lane Len Blavatnik, Ukraine, US$17.8 billion

● Rupert Murdoch, Australia, US$13.4 billion

● Patrick Soon-Shiong, South Africa, US$9 billion.

●Pierre Omidyar, France, US$8.5 billion

●Elon Musk, South Africa, US$6.7 billion

●Thomas Peterffy, Hungary, US$6.4 billion

●Do Won Chang and Jin Sook, South Korea, US$5 billion

●David Sun, Taiwan, US$4 billion

●John Tu, Mainland China, US$4 billion

●Shahid Khan Khan), Pakistan, $3.8 billion

● Jeffrey Skoll, Canada, $3.8 billion

● Haim Saban, Egypt, $3.4 billion

● Steven Woodward-Hertz Udvar-Hazy), Hungary, US$3.4 billion

● John Catsimatidis, Greece, US$3.1 billion

● Roger Wang, Taiwan, US$3 billion

●Igor Olenicoff, Russia, US$2.9 billion

●Andrew and Peggy Cherng, Myanmar and Mainland China, US$2.7 billion

●Victor Fung, Hong Kong, China, US$2.7 billion

●Tom Gore Gores), Israel, US$2.7 billion

●Isaac Perlmutter, Israel, US$2.7 billion

●Min Kao, Taiwan, US$2.3 billion

●Mortimer Zuckerman, Canada, US$2.3 billion

●Bharat Desai, Kenya, US$2.2 billion

●Michael Moritz, UK, US$2.2 billion

●Romesh T. Wadhani Wadhwani, India, US$2.1 billion

● Nicolas Berggruen, France, US$2 billion

● Alec Gores, Israel, US$2 billion

● Fayez Sharofi Sarofim, Egypt, US$2 billion

● John Farber, Romania, US$2 billion

● Alexander Knaster, Russia, US$1.8 billion

● Peter Thiel Thiel, Germany, US$1.8 billion

● Kavitark Ram Shriram, India, US$1.75 billion

● Jerry Yang, Taiwan, US$1.7 billion

● Jorge Perez Perez), Argentina, US$1.55 billion

● Vinod Khosla, India, US$1.5 billion

● Marc Lasry, Morocco, US$1.5 billion