David Sarnoff — media (rca/nbc) with roots in the Russian Empire
David Sarnoff was born in Uzda near Minsk (Russian Empire, now Belarus) and emigrated to New York at age nine. He rose from newspaper delivery boy to General of the US Army Signal Corps, founding NBC and building RCA into the dominant force in American radio and television.
Tracing the roots — Uzda (Minsk)
Born in the Russian Empire and arriving in New York speaking only Yiddish, Sarnoff's life is one of the most extraordinary immigrant ascents in American history. As the teenager who reportedly stayed at his Marconi wireless telegraph post for 72 hours relaying Titanic survivor names, he turned a crisis into a career and a career into an empire.
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Uzda (Minsk). At the time, this region lay within the Russian Empire, which spanned from Poland to the Pacific.
A career defined by ambition
"I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge."