“Why are second-generation kids never that successful?” asked Social Capital CEO Palihapitiya, who moved with his family from Sri Lanka to Canada and worked at a Burger King to help support them. Instead of the entrepreneurial mother or father, who had “only one curve that they were optimizing for, which is the what-have-I-got-to-lose curve,” the child starts “with the exact inverse curve working against them, which is the risk of embarrassment,” Palihapitiya said. “No matter what the parent says to that child, that person is operating from a perspective where the perception is that they have
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