Leslie Bocskor

America brought something to the world that never had existed before. But it wasn't a specific technology, it wasn't a particular way of doing things. What it was was a combination of environmental factors that led to the innovation market and free markets that have changed the country and changed the world.

The combination of having freedom and a framework that allowed us to explore free markets, innovation, capital formation, and more. The ability to create liquidity and to be able to deal with the failure even when markets went up and exploded and then came back and were reframing what was left.

What we ended up with at the end created something that the world had never seen before. Multiple industries, whether it was the telegraph, the semiconductor, the automobile, the train, the computer industry, the internet, or now AI. They all originated in the United States.

The innovation all came out of the United States and it is a result of something uniquely American. And that is what, to me, has made America something unlike anywhere else in the world and makes me proud to participate in those markets.