Gary and his family immigrated to the US from Belarus in 1978. He lived with 8 family members in a studio apartment in Queens, New York, before relocating to Edison, New Jersey. Gary often calls himself a “purebred entrepreneur” having successfully started a lemonade franchise at age 7, and eventually selling tens of thousands of dollars worth of baseball cards and toys throughout his ...

Khosrowshahi was born in Iran to a prominent family that founded the Alborz Investment Company. He was 9 when his family escaped Iran on the eve of the Iranian Revolution in 1978 after Alborz Investment was nationalized. When he was 13, his father had to go back to Iran to take care of his grandfather and was detained for six years before returning. During that time his mom was raising three kids ...

At the age of 4, Ken Lin immigrated with his parents from China to the United States. His parents worked working class jobs at casinos and restaurants to pay his tuition fees to attend Boston University. In the late 1990s, Lin worked in the credit card industry. He had previously founded Multilytics Marketing, a data driven marketing agency.
From a humble beginning, Credit Karma CEO Kenneth Li...

Bansal was born, raised, and educated in India. In 2000, he entered the United States with a H-1B visa, working for a number of Silicon Valley start-ups before receiving a green card allowing him to striking-out on his own to establish AppDynamics.
Unlike many software start-ups, AppDynamics was built to attack the enterprise market—companies big enough to eventually spend hundreds of ...

Born on 5 April 1992, Keung’s earliest years were spent in Shanghai and Hong Kong, but she was educated in the US after emigrating with her parents at the age of four. She was the first person in her family to graduate from university. She went on to win a National Science Foundation research grant at age 19, and, in 2014, was admitted to Harvard Business School under its high-potential stu...