Elmira Bayraslis colourful narrative takes readers through the world of high-growth entrepreneurs as they overcome vexing obstacles to build businesses that create jobs and economic growth and, perhaps most important, shift mindsets. Here are the people who personify the transformative force of entrepreneurship from parts of the world that will be the source of the overwhelming amount of economic growth over the next twenty-five years. Bayrasli takes us on an extraordinary journey, with fascinating eyewitness accounts of courage, endurance and ingenuity, as people in some of the worlds most challenging societies build globally competitive products and services that garner international praise and investment.

About the Author
Elmira Bayrasli works on entrepreneurship, global development and foreign policy. She is the cofounder of Foreign Policy Interrupted and a lecturer at New York University. Elmira has written for Foreign Affairs, the Wall Street Journal, Reuters and the New York Times. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.