From US Immigrant to Billion-Dollar Entrepreneur: Sam Nazarian's Success Blueprint

When you are an immigrant coming to a country and you're not accepted, either you accept that or you don't. And I think for for me, it was I really wanna change that, and and I wanna be the leader. Role models make it real. If the role model is somebody you can relate to in some way. And so each year, I try to bring in a couple of extraordinary entrepreneurs, people that have started with nothing, and people who built something that's extraordinary. And there are certain qualities that do that, and especially if you've done it over the last ten, fifteen, twenty years because we've experienced the 2008, the world financial crisis. We've experienced COVID. So if you did well in business during this time, it's a lot different than when everything's just flowing so easily. So I'm gonna introduce you to two entrepreneurs that are dear friends of mine who are just brilliant, but they're also super humble. You'd never know who they are. And this is one of the things I respect about them. But they always over deliver for their clients. And the first person is a gentleman who has been an entrepreneur basically his whole life. He didn't have to be. We'll talk about this a little bit when he comes up here, but his family comes from Iran. They lost everything. But his father was an amazing entrepreneur as well. And literally, he's philanthropist, extraordinary investor, business person, and self made billionaire starting over from scratch again here in The United States. Pretty extraordinary. But rather than have his dad's money or hotels, he wanna do everything himself. He could have easily, like most kids would do, just, hey, take take the ride. But he had his own vision, his own sense of creativity. And he wanted to, well, initially, just make some great nightclubs. You know, he was a young man, but gradually, he designed lifestyle hotels. And today, he's created a whole new technology around food that we're gonna talk about in a second. Ladies and gentlemen, please give it to my dear friend, Sam Nazarian. Sam, so great to have you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Hello, everybody. Well, listen. We we have 4,000 entrepreneurs here, a thousand in a room, 3,000 around the world, and 76 countries, all here to maximize their ability. There are people who are just beginning their journey. The largest business in the room, 750,000,000. So there's quite diversity. Right. But every entrepreneur has a journey. Right. And yours is really, really unique and special as all great ones are, but yours is especially because you came to this country, when you were four. Right? Four years Exactly. Four years old from Iran. Yeah. Tell people a little bit I'm just curious how tell a little bit about how you came here. What's it like to enter a country, live in a hotel, not know the language, not know the culture? And then …