Amid the hoopla surrounding Hillary Clinton’s appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live and a certain pickle jar, it may be instructive to recall that, as Breitbart News first reported, a draft media policy memo requested by Clinton recommended that she utilize “specialty media,” including late night shows, to get across her messages and help shape opinions.
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Email from Max Levchin: The next great immigrant inventor
Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal, Affirm, Glow, and Slide, sent the below message to White House email lists. Didn’t get the message? Sign up here for updates.
In 1991, with just a few hundred dollars to our name, my family and I immigrated to the United States from the USSR, and landed in Chicago a couple of days after I turned 16 years old.
Coming from a family of scientists, I was always strongly encouraged to seek out the best education available. Graduating high school in 1993, I went to study Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, one of America’s best schools in the discipline.
The Internet’s popularity had just begun to explode, opportunities were limitless, and everyone around me was dreaming up startup company ideas. I started no fewer than four companies while finishing up my degree, and every single one of them failed. Undeterred, I drove cross-country to Silicon Valley, and co-founded my fifth company — PayPal.
Recruiting as many college friends as I could to join the venture, the next few years were spent building the foundation of what is now a $45 billion company, employing over nearly 17,000 people.
Because of PayPal’s success, I was afforded the opportunity to support and fuel the start of many other great companies. I was able to co-found Glow and Affirm, and I was the first investor and chairman of Yelp — a company that now employs more than 4,000 people. I’ve served on corporate boards of Yahoo!, Yelp, and Evernote, as well as the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Consumer Advisory Board. I’ve had the privilege to invest in over 100 startups, and advise numerous others.
I believe that the most promising entrepreneurs from around the world should have the same opportunity I had — the chance to deliver on their potential, here in America.
My story isn’t unique — America is a nation of immigrants and has always been a magnet for strivers, innovators, and entrepreneurs from every corner of the globe.
Immigrants co-founded as many as a quarter of the high-tech startups in communities all across this country — and over half of the startups in Silicon Valley. One in every 10 people employed at a privately-owned U.S. company works at an immigrant-owned firm — that’s nearly 4 million people. Immigrants or children of immigrants founded more than 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies.
And the next great companies are being conceived right now, in countless dorm rooms and garages around the world. So many of these entrepreneurs yearn to grow their companies here in America, where the opportunities are still limitless. And when these companies are started and capitalized here, it creates jobs for Americans and grows our economy.
Thanks,
Max Levchin
Co-Founder of PayPal, Affirm, Glow, and Slide
Email from Charles W. Scharf: Why equal pay is good business
On Women’s Equality Day, Charles W. Scharf, CEO of Visa, sent the below message to the White House email list. If you didn’t get the message, you can sign up here.
In June, the White House convened women from around the world for the United State of Women Summit — an effort to celebrate all the progress women have made on gender equality issues so far, and to tackle the obstacles that still remain.
As CEO of Visa, I did not hesitate. Today, I want to tell you why.
At Visa, we have made it a priority to advance diversity and inclusion in our workplace. My leadership team and I believe that this value is not only non-negotiable, but is a strategic business imperative. It’s good for our business because it harnesses the broad perspectives and diversity of thought needed to create and deliver better solutions for our clients. It’s good for our organization because we need a talented workforce that reflects the communities in which we work and serve every day.
Promoting an environment that values diversity and inclusion also means a commitment to paying all employees fairly and equitably.
I am proud to sign this pledge, which affirms our commitment to pay equity for women at Visa.
Charles W. Scharf
CEO of Visa
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