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The Hall of Fame America Has Been Missing

ENTREPRENEUR STORY

The Hall of Fame America Has Been Missing

Every Hall of Fame is ultimately an answer to the same question: Which achievements deserve to be remembered? America has answered that question for athletes, musicians, entertainers, and dozens of other professions and pastimes. Yet one group whose contributions have shaped every American’s daily life has never had a national home of its own: entrepreneurs.

America Was Built by Founders. Now, It’s Sustained by Them.

ENTREPRENEUR STORY

America Was Built by Founders. Now, It’s Sustained by Them.

From small-town shopkeepers to groundbreaking inventors, from family-owned farms to global companies, the American story has always been written by people willing to dream bigger than their circumstances. In the Old World the founders left behind, those circumstances at your birth defined your possibilities for the rest of your life. The founders believed something different was possible for all, a nation where opportunity was limitless.