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Key Takeaways Entrepreneurs increasingly view citizenship the same way they view diversified investments or redundant infrastructure.
A second passport can improve mobility, reduce travel friction and provide greater access to global markets, banking systems and opportunities.
As founders think internationally about customers, capital and operations, many are extending that mindset to citizenship and mobility.
For decades, entrepreneurs viewed passports as personal documents. Today, a growing number are beginning to view them as something else entirely: strategic infrastructure and a tool.
Entrepreneurs need passports. They need access. They need mobility in all forms. They need passports in their pockets and freedom in their hearts. They need citizenship that unlocks markets and passports that open doors. They need passports that speak their language and passports that speak their markets.
Entrepreneurs think globally by nature. Supply chains cross oceans, customers reside across the border and capital movements exceed the reach of governments to regulate them. Still, the majority of entrepreneurs think local, linking their own mobility and long-term security to one passport. This scenario of rapidly changing policies of governments, travel bans, sanctions and overregulation makes it risky to rely on one single passport.
That’s where citizenship by investment comes in, less an indulgence, more a kind of diversification.
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