Who is the Immigrant Self-made Billionaire?  Robert Herjavec? or Romesh Wadhwani?


Robert Herjavec is immigrant from Croatia to Canada and is a famous TV persoanlity with millions of fans.

Romesh Wadhwani is the founder of Symphony Software and 20 other companies.  99% of Americans don't know who he is.

The answer is:  Romesh Wadhwani is the correct answer.   He has a net worth of $2.8B  vs Robert Herjavec $100M. 

Congratulation to both.  You both are idols for us immigrants who started as dishwashers.

My eBook #11 "Zero to Billions:  Anyone Can: 57 Immigrant Self-made Billionaires" will appear in Amazon Kindle on 5/1/2016.  I am an immigrant to US and I have been very honor to write on this topic.

This is eBook #8 48 Hedge Fund Self-made Billionaires.  It has been the most popular so far

I am now writing eBook #11  "Immigrant Self-made Billionaire".   I am in the 50% and one big surprise.

Immigrants have 30% higher chance to becoming Self-made Billionaires than someone born in the United States.


So much for Mr. Donal Trump, who is into bashing immigrants, the Pope, women etc. 





To be fair to him, he is is good businessman. And I can learn 1001 things on self-promotion and business-promotion from him.

 But he is not self-made.   In my definition, he did not start from ZERO.  Instead he started life inherited a couple million dollars from his father. Mind you, that was 40 years ago. Factored into inflation, it means he probably inherited about $100M in today's term.

Just a brief look between Mr Elon Musk and Mr Donal Trump.  IMHO,  Musk works a lot harder, is a better businessperson and Mr Musk has better ideas to make our world a better place.   And Mr Musk was born in South Africa.

The only thing common between Donald Trump and Elon Musk.  They both went to U Penn Wharton School.

 
"When everyone is going right, look left.”
Sam Zell , Real Estate Self-made Billionaire

 Why I am not writing on self-made millionaires?   Question from a friend.

Because there are 10,000 people writing or podcasting or youtubing how to be millionaires

I don't want to be #10,001 -- it is a crowded field.  
It is difficult to come up with something original.  The study of self-made billionaires is like the swimming in the blue ocean.  There are infinite possibility.  I can write 20 books on self-made billionaires.  I have already written and ePublished 10 of them, all on Amazon Kindle.  

On second thought, this is a brilliant question.  For most people, becoming a millionaire is more relevant to most people.   And every self-made billionaire was once a self-made millionaire.  It is an inevitable step, an important step  and a great step for everyone.

So my eBook #12  will be "From Millionaires to Billionaires, from  top 3% to top 0.001%".  Scheduled to be completed by end of June, 2016.   I am writing eBook #11 "Immigrant Self-made Billionaires."   

Here are the most important stats: 
over 80% of millionaires are self-made (from book Millionaires Next Door by Stanley &Danko),
average age 56,  about 3% of US population are millionaires.
They are plentiful and not difficult to find one to talk to.   This self-made millionaire could be your neighbor or co-worker.  You probably talk to a couple of self-made millionaires a day if you live in San Francisco,  New York or Washington DC area.

About 67% of billionaires are self-made (Forbes)
average age is 66, about 0.001%,   1.2 per million population
these are very rare and very difficult to find

These are the black swans , one in a million.  I am infatuated by them.  They made great stories. They are the rebels, the disruptors, the creators, the builders ...  They are the 0.001%.  They think differently from 99% of the population.  

Do you think differently from 99% of the population?