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Over the years in Silicon Valley, the global hotbed of innovation, several Indian-origin entrepreneurs have created a huge impact with successful innovative start-ups.
FREMONT, CA: The immigrants of Indian origin, mostly the first or second-generation, have worked in several highly valued tech companies in the United states for decades. In March 3, in an interaction with NASA scientists, Joe Biden, US President, acknowledged Indian Americans' accomplishments by remarking how they have taken over the country while relating it to Kamala Harris, Vice president of the United states and Vinay reddy, his speechwriter. One-third of Silicon Valley and eight percent of the founders of influential tech companies are people of Indian descent even though the 2.7 million Indian immigrants in the United States account for only one percent of the total population.
Speaking of which, Baiju Bhatt, a 37-year-old who was second-generation Indian-American born to immigrant parents and a Stanford alum, co-founded Robinhood, a financial services company. Mission of this company was to provide access to the financial markets to irrespectively everyone and not be reserved to just wealthy people. Idea was generated by him from the 2011 Occupy Wall Street protest when the creco-founded Robinhood. This financial service-based company aims to provide access to ators identified the severity of issues within the financial industry. Robinhood eliminates the high fees charged by trade brokers by offering commission-free stock trading and exchange-trading funds.
Clubhouse is another newest successful startup on the list, which was started in 2019 by Paul Davidson and Rohan Seth, the two co-founders who started their journey at Stanford University, and after numerous unsatisfying attempts they mutually agreed to give this social media startup the one last try. At the beginning of the pandemic the Clubhouse app, which is an invitation-only voice chat room, received immense demand as there was a huge need for human interaction and furthermore it gained huge popularity after influential people such as Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg started using it.
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