From Refugee to Billionaire (w/ Andrew Viterbi)

Noah Kagan Presents

Noah Kagan

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I talk to Andrew Viterbi, co-founder of Qualcomm and creator of the Viterbi algorithm.

When Andrew was just 4 years old, he came to the US as a refugee from Italy. By 10 years old, he already had a passion for math and technology and wanted to study at MIT university (spoiler alert… he did!).

Now, Andrew is in his 80s!!!! And he’s known for being the co-founder of Qualcomm — a $120 BILLION dollar company!!! And he also invented the Viterbi algorithm.

If you’ve ever wanted to learn about how to invent an algorithm and make your own luck, you’ll love this episode.

In this conversation, you’ll enjoy 3 BIG things:

- How money changed Andrew’s life coming from nothing to being a billionaire

- If Andrew regrets working as hard as he did to get major success

- And the #1 thing he thinks startups NEED to be successful

Enjoy those 3 things… plus a bunch more ear nuggets along the way.

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0:00.0	and we might have made it to Switzerland, but had we not, I would wound up as an eight-year-old
0:06.3	bunch of ashes.
0:07.3	Does that drive me?
0:09.4	Well, to some degree.
0:11.6	What is up you sexy bastards, it is your boy Barcelona,
0:17.0	aka Rabbi Cantlose, aka Noah Kagan.
0:20.0	In today's episode I talk to Andrew Viterbi.
0:22.0	He is the co-founder of Kual Kong. In today's episode, I talked to Andrew Viterby.
0:22.5	He is the co-founder of Qualcomm.
0:24.5	Yes, Qualcomm, and the creator of the Viterbi algorithm.
0:27.6	His chips are in the phone that you're using today.
0:29.9	Yes, and he helped invent 4G, 5G, and whatever G comes later. Now when he was four years old, he came to the US as a refugee from Italy and by 10 years old he already had a passion for math and
0:40.0	wanted to study at MIT. Turns out he did.
0:42.9	Now Andrews in his 80s, and his company Qualcomm
0:45.4	is worth over $120 billion at the time of this episode.
0:48.7	If you ever want to learn about how to invent an algorithm
0:50.8	and make your own luck, you're going to love this episode.
0:53.0	Here's three gigantic things you're going to take away.
0:55.0	Number one, how money changed Andrew's life coming from nothing to being a billionaire?
0:59.0	Two, if Andrew regrets working as hard as he did to get his success, And three, the number one thing he thinks
1:04.1	startups need to be successful. Enjoy those three things plus a bunch of
1:07.3	wear ear nuggets along the way. If you're looking to scheduling and use a product
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