Wilson was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, adopted at age 10, and arrived in the United States on New Year's Eve 2013 knowing almost nothing about this country. By age 22 he had built six production AI systems and 2.2M followers. This talk is about what it means to build from the margins — how immigrants and adoptees carry a specific kind of resilience, and how that resilience becomes a competitive advantage in entrepreneurship.