Welcome to Entrepreneurs the Playbook. I'm David Meltzer and I have a treat for you. It's very rare.

We get the wisdom and the faith of somebody who has done it himself, a billionaire entrepreneur,

best known as the founder of Magna International, one of the world's largest automobile part

suppliers in the world. We are blessed to have on the playbook.

Frank Strohnack, welcome to the playbook.

It's great to be with you.

Great to have you.

Well, you know, there are no overnight successes,

and you have definitely learned some lessons around the way.

I was curious, you know, being born in 1932, how did things exponentially grow?

Give us a little bit of a background when you started from your modest beginnings as an

immigrant to being a billionaire today.

So you mentioned my birthday in 1932.

So that means I'm 94 years young.

Okay.

So anyway, life is a question of fate and circumstances, being at the right places,

at the right time with the right ingredients.

I've seen a lot.

I was born in Austria, so I have as a kid, I witnessed the war, right?

And in hindsight, you think, how can the system like the Nazi regime have a buildup and existed, right?

So, and then I was born kind of in the eastern part of

Austria and at the same time we were or shortly after the war we were occupied by

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