For the past decade, the majority of entrepreneurs (at it is a growing majority, year-by-year) I have represented in my early-stage startups have been immigrant

For the past decade, the majority of entrepreneurs (at it is a growing majority, year-by-year) I have represented in my early-stage startups have been immigrants who did not attend elite schools. This group is smart, innovative and, above all, hungry for entrepreneurial success, and eager to sacrifice in order to achieve it. The elite school grads can, of course, also exhibit a similar entrepreneurial vigor but most often don't - I don't know if it is an entitlement mindset or aversion to risk, but they are the exception and not the rule among those I have represented in connection with startups (several thousand entrepreneurs in all since I started doing this in 1984). I can't speak for the broader world, but this is the clear pattern I have seen among early-stage (largely bootstrap) startups in Silicon Valley in recent years.