Over 90 percent of the world's great entrepreneurs are located in or building their businesses in the United States.
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The Dan Bongino ShowOct 16, 2026
None of the provided sources measures what share of the world's "great entrepreneurs" are located in or building businesses in the United States, so the 90 percent figure cannot be checked.
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… With electricity, there were houses that burned down. With flight, there were plane crashes. But no one's going to say, "Oh, we don't need planes, and we don't need electricity." I am so optimistic about the future. I cannot emphasize enough how important it is that you live in the United States right now, where 90 plus percent of the world's great entrepreneurs are either located or doing and building their businesses. You are alive at the most special time in American history, and a bunch of patriots who don't really need this stuff are out there busting their ass to save this place because they know the alternative is a disaster. You want to see the alternative? …
The Dan Bongino Show · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Context. A blog estimate puts about 31 million entrepreneurs in the US out of about 582 million worldwide, roughly 5 percent. That measures all entrepreneurs, not "great" ones, and the source is unrated.[2]
Context. The billionaire-entrepreneur study reports that 65 percent of US dollar billionaires acquired their wealth by starting a business, but it gives no share of the world's entrepreneurs located in the US.[3]
Context. A 2016 White House remark says "No country is home to more entrepreneurs," which supports US leadership in entrepreneurship but gives no 90 percent figure.[1]
Sources
3 sources: 1 primary, 2 not rated
- 1Remarks by the President at the 2016 SelectUSA Investment ...obamawhitehouse.archives.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 2Entrepreneurial Statistics: Everything About Entrepreneurship In 2026searchlogistics.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 3Closing Europe's Gap to Other Industrialized Regionsscispace.com · not rated · cited for: context
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