This new research on US unicorn startups is really interesting.
Some key facts from the report:
1. Immigrants founded or cofounded 455 of America’s 775 privately held billion-dollar startups, equal to 59% of all US unicorns.
2. 66% of all US unicorns were founded or cofounded by immigrants or the children of immigrants.
3. 79% of US unicorns have either an immigrant founder or an immigrant in a key leadership role.
4. The 455 immigrant-founded US unicorns have a combined valuation of $5 trillion.
5. That $5 trillion valuation is larger than the total stock-market value of companies listed in all but 7 countries.
6. Including immigrant-founded unicorns that went public since 2016 pushes the total value above $5.8 trillion.
7. The number of immigrant-founded US unicorns rose from 50 in 2018 to 455 in 2026.
8. 24% of US unicorns have a founder who first came to America as an international student.
The best negotiators I've ever worked with were Egyptian, Indian, and Israeli.
They learn to be outrageous from the start, smile through the over-the-top offers, you want to get better at negotiating go learn from cultures that barter for a living.
Jane Street Quant ~$4M/year - showed how the fund uses code from 1996 that still makes $5.3B/month
- they train their own models on a 30-year-old language
33-min and you'll learn what code a tier-1 fund has been using since 2005
bookmark & watch - this beats every vibecoding tutorial out there
Observation about wealthy people:
I once worked closely with someone very wealthy, and what stood out wasn’t their lifestyle it was their restraint.
If their coffee came wrong, they didn’t send it back three times. They just drank it. If a flight was delayed, they didn’t rant at the gate agent. They opened a book.
There was this quiet understanding that not everything deserves a reaction.
While everyone else around them treated minor inconveniences like personal attacks, they treated them like background noise. Temporary. Not worth the spike in heart rate.
It didn’t feel like indifference. It felt like perspective.
They weren’t rushing to win every tiny battle. They weren’t trying to control what couldn’t be controlled.
And I realized it wasn’t really about the money fixing things.
It was about security.
When you’re not constantly in survival mode, you don’t need to fight every inconvenience like it’s a threat. You can afford emotionally to let things slide.
And that might be the real luxury.
SUMMARY OF ECONOMIC SURVEY 2024-25
💠India’s GDP expected to grow between 6.3 & 6.8 per cent in FY26
💠Real GDP estimated at 6.4 per cent in FY25, close to its decadal average
💠Real GVA estimated to grow by 6.4 per cent in FY25
Read here: https://t.co/71L0nCyVqz
#EconomicSurvey #BudgetSession #BudgetSession2025
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What will happen to API Manufacturing, are we unable to mfg drug and can't source API's, we still getting behing CHINA in many ways, Not just Pharma and Tech.
Importing Drugs / Medicines Becomes Cheaper
👉 36 Lifesaving drugs and medicines to be added to the list of medicines fully exempted from Basic Customs Duty
👉 37 more medicines and 13 new patient assistance programmes to be fully exempted from Basic Customs Duty (where they are supplied free of cost to patients)
#ViksitBharatBudget2025 #Budget2025 #UnionBudget2025